# zip content and copy it
file = zipfile.ZipFile( zip_folder_path + '/' + file_name + '.zip', "w")

# comp_path = '/mnt/exthd/somefolder/somexmlfile.xml'
  
file.write( comp_path, name + '.xml', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
           
file.close()

>>>>

  File "upload_mysql.py", line 70, in processfile
    file.write( comp_path, benchmark_tag['name'] + '.xml', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py", line 412, in write
    self.fp.write(zinfo.FileHeader())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py", line 166, in FileHeader
    return header + self.filename + self.extra
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)