Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be compressing or minifying css files using csscompressor library in python 3. All the full source code of the application is given below.

Get Started

In order to get started we need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below

pip install csscompressor

After installing this library you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import codecs
import csscompressor

def css_minify(src,dst):
    with codecs.open(src, 'r', 'utf-8') as src_file:
        minified = csscompressor.compress(src_file.read())
        with codecs.open(dst, 'w', 'utf-8') as dst_file:
            dst_file.write(minified)
            
css_minify("input.css","outputminified.css")

Here in this python script you need to replace the input file and output file paths accordingly. Now run the python script by typing the below command

python app.py