How do I zip a large file?

Question

I have a file that is 12GB and I'd like to compress it in Python 2.7.x.

I tried to do it with this code

shutil.make_archive(output, 'zip', input)

I got back this error

LargeZipFile: Filesize would require ZIP64 extensions

I read the docs and it says

ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size require Zip64

How do I apply Zip64 to my file?

Answer 1

You can try

shutil.make_archive(output, 'zip', input,allowZip64=True)