How to create an encrypted ZIP file?

Question

I am creating an ZIP file with ZipFile in Python 2.5, it works OK so far:

import zipfile, os  locfile = "test.txt" loczip = os.path.splitext (locfile)[0] + ".zip" zip = zipfile.ZipFile (loczip, "w") zip.write (locfile) zip.close() 

But I couldn't find how to encrypt the files in the ZIP file. I could use system and call PKZIP -s, but I suppose there must be a more "Pythonic" way. I'm looking for an open source solution.

Answer 1

I created a simple library to create a password encrypted zip file in python. - here

import pyminizip  compression_level = 5 # 1-9 pyminizip.compress("src.txt", "dst.zip", "password", compression_level) 

The library requires zlib.

I have checked that the file can be extracted in WINDOWS/MAC.