On Saturday 10 August 2002 05:57 am, list_subscriber@neurobs.com wrote:

Hi, I am trying to call 'zip'(linux) from within my python external method. The is what I do:

### SRC ###

import os

src_dir = 'some_dir' cmd_apth = '/usr/bin/zip' zip_file_name = 'res.zip'

os.chdir(src_dir) result = os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT,cmd_path,'-rv',zip_file_name,'.') print result

### END SRC ###

I'm guessing that you are just tring to invoke zip on the res.zip. Seems to me that you probably want to just use the system command -- import os os.system( '/usr/bin/zip res.zip' )