Re: zipapp: add compression (method), compresslevel options from Zipfile

You have some demo code for it?


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On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, 07:18 Mingye Wang via Python-list, <
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> Zipapp is meant to produce things that will be delivered to an end-user.
> In this way it should behave like most packaging tools and offer more
> "thorough" compression options, limited only by the version of the Python
> interpreter on the user's side (more specifically, their zipfile modules).
> As a result I believe we should be allowed to choose the compression method
> and compression level. Some seconds spent on the developer's computer can
> be minutes saved on downloading from a poor Internet connection.
>
> My proposed API surface include two keyword-only parameters, compression
> and compresslevel, both having the same meaning and type as their Zipfile
> counterparts. The compression option should take precedence over the
> current boolean "compressed" option if it is not set to None; otherwise the
> settings, including the defaults for "compressed" apply.
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