Create a zip file from a generator in Python?

Question

I\'ve got a large amount of data (a couple gigs) I need to write to a zip file in Python. I can\'t load it all into memory at once to pass to the .writestr method of ZipFil

Answer 1

The gzip library will take a file-like object for compression.

class GzipFile([filename [,mode [,compresslevel [,fileobj]]]])

You still need to provide a nominal filename for inclusion in the zip file, but you can pass your data-source to the fileobj.

(This answer differs from that of Damnsweet, in that the focus should be on the data-source being incrementally read, not the compressed file being incrementally written.)

And I see now the original questioner won't accept Gzip :-(