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Multi-threading

import threading, zipfile class AsyncZip(threading.Thread):     def __init__(self, infile, outfile):         threading.Thread.__init__(self)                 self.infile = infile         self.outfile = outfile     def run(self):         f = zipfile.ZipFile(self.outfile, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)         f.write(self.infile)         f.close()         print 'Finished background zip of: ', self.infile background = AsyncZip('mydata.txt', 'myarchive.zip') background.start() print 'The main program continues to run in foreground.' background.join()    # Wait for the background task to finish print 'Main program waited until background was done.'