stdlib - shutil.make_archive - add support for different ZIP compression method

[OwenChia]

BPO	36770
Nosy	@giampaolo, @tarekziade, @matrixise, @OwenChia
PRs	bpo-36770: add feature for shutil.make_archive #13447
Files	shutil.make_archive.patch: shutil.make_archive - add support for different ZIP compression method

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title = 'stdlib - shutil.make_archive - add support for different ZIP compression method'
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[OwenChia]

if you just want to use different zip compression method, no need to rewrite entire _make_zipfile function.

e.g.
>>> shutil.make_archive('archive', 'zip_lzma', '/path/to/whatever')

[matrixise]

Hi @OwenChia

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Thank you