Adding folders to a zip file using python

Question

I want to create a zip file. Add a folder to the zip file and then add a bunch of files to that folder.

So I want to end up with a zip file with a single folder with files in.

I dont know if its bad practice to have folders in zip files or something but google gives me nothing on the subject.

I started out with this:

def addFolderToZip(myZipFile,folder):     folder = folder.encode('ascii') #convert path to ascii for ZipFile Method     for file in glob.glob(folder+"/*"):             if os.path.isfile(file):                 print file                 myZipFile.write(file, os.path.basename(file), zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)             elif os.path.isdir(file):                 addFolderToZip(myZipFile,file)  def createZipFile(filename,files,folders):     curTime=strftime("__%Y_%m_%d", time.localtime())     filename=filename+curTime;     print filename     zipFilename=utils.getFileName("files", filename+".zip")     myZipFile = zipfile.ZipFile( zipFilename, "w" ) # Open the zip file for writing      for file in files:         file = file.encode('ascii') #convert path to ascii for ZipFile Method         if os.path.isfile(file):             (filepath, filename) = os.path.split(file)             myZipFile.write( file, filename, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED )      for folder in  folders:            addFolderToZip(myZipFile,folder)       myZipFile.close()     return (1,zipFilename)   (success,filename)=createZipFile(planName,files,folders); 

Taken from: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-August/396166.html

Which gets rid of all folders and puts all files in the target folder (and its subfolders) into a single zip file. I couldnt get it to add an entire folder.

If I feed the path to a folder in myZipFile.write, I get

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '..\packed\bin'

Any help is much welcome.

Related question: How do I zip the contents of a folder using python (version 2.5)?

Answer 1

You can also use shutil

import shutil  zip_name = 'path\to\zip_file' directory_name = 'path\to\directory'  # Create 'path\to\zip_file.zip' shutil.make_archive(zip_name, 'zip', directory_name) 

This will put the whole folder in the zip.