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#!/urs/bin/env python

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.")