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David
David

Reputation: 1074

ZipFile module creating .pyc file

I can't find any info on this but when I try and create a zip archive in Python it creates a .pyc instead. 

#!/Python27/python

import zipfile

z = zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', 'w')
z.write('README.txt')
z.close()

This is the result of running the script.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 686

Answers (1)

SuperBiasedMan
SuperBiasedMan

Reputation: 9969

The script you're running (or some other script you have) is actually called zipfile.py, and so Python is actually first looking in the folder your script is in to find a module called zipfile. When it finds this script, it imports that instead of the actual module.

Any time a script is imported to another Python file, Python automatically creates a compiled .pyc file resulting in that zipfile.pyc. If you rename your file to something more specific (and also fix your typo) you should be able to avoid this problem.

Upvotes: 1

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