The offical repo is at https://github.com/SpiderOak/ZipStream please use that instead.
zipstream.py is a zip archive generator based on zipfile.py. It was created to generate a zip file on-the-fly for download in a web.py (http://webpy.org/) application. This is beneficial for when you want to provide a downloadable archive of a large collection of regular files, which would be infeasible to generate the archive prior to downloading.
The archive is generated as an iterator of strings, which, when joined, form the zip archive. For example, the following code snippet would write a zip archive containing files from 'path' to a normal file:
zf = open('zipfile.zip', 'wb')
for data in ZipStream(path):
zf.write(data)
zf.close()
Since recent versions of web.py support returning iterators of strings to be sent to the browser, to download a dynamically generated archive, you could use something like this snippet:
def GET(self):
path = '/path/to/dir/of/files'
zip_filename = 'files.zip'
web.header('Content-type' , 'application/zip')
web.header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % (
zip_filename,))
return ZipStream(path)
If the zlib module is available, ZipStream can generate compressed zip archives.
Contact the SpiderOak team at spideroak_tools@spideroak.com
And be sure to back up your files! http://www.spideroak.com
Generate 6 gigs of random data
ionadmin@onfire:/results/zip$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.blob bs=1048576 count=6000
Get the checksum of the generated file
ionadmin@onfire:/results/zip$ md5sum file.blob
11ef7625569f44977789caa785b5f112 file.blob
Now compress it using zipstream
from zipstream import ZipStream
toZip = "/results/zip/file.blob"
zf = open('zipfile.zip', 'wb')
for data in ZipStream(toZip):
zf.write(data)
zf.close()
Check the output zipfile checksum
ionadmin@onfire:/results/zip/output$ md5sum zipfile.zip
405437edcb0c81d7639e01f8f1e50417 zipfile.zip
Unzip the zipped file
ionadmin@onfire:/results/zip/output$ unzip zipfile.zip
The resulting file checksum
ionadmin@onfire:/results/zip/output$ md5sum file.blob
11ef7625569f44977789caa785b5f112 file.blob
So ZipStream is a great solution if you need to zip large files with Python 2.6.5.
zipfile with Python 2.6.5 is broken for large files - http://bugs.python.org/issue8571
Python 2.6.5 is part of Ubuntu 10.04. So this ZipStream is a great solution to zip large files with Python 2.6.5!