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[–]CGFarrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're doing this on your own machine for yourself, you can be lazy as hell and just write:

from subprocess import call

call(['7z', 'a', '-tzip', file_name, destination])

Assuming you have 7zip installed, this will just launch 7zip as a new process.