handling zip files

[Steve Barnes]

On 15/12/13 11:58, hamann.w at t-online.de wrote:
> Some "binary" files that would make sense to track are actually zip files.
> I have seen that someone created an extension specific for openoffice, but is there anything
> like a generic zip file handler (unpack both files into folders and do a recursive diff on the
> contents)
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang
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Wolfgang,

IMHO the one type of binary file that it almost never makes sense to 
track is a .zip file - track the contents and generate the .zip file on 
the fly either using pythons zipfile module or using one of the command 
line zip file tools.

Gadget/Steve