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How can I create a zip archive of a directory structure in Python?
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You can compress directories and the corresponding sub-directories by using the -r flag. The -r flag will tell zip to traverse the entire directory recursively.
Right-click on the file or folder. Select “Compressed (zipped) folder”. To place multiple files into a zip folder, select all of the files while hitting the Ctrl button. Then, right-click on one of the files, move your cursor over the “Send to” option and select “Compressed (zipped) folder”.
-r Option: To zip a directory recursively, use the -r option with the zip command and it will recursively zips the files in a directory. This option helps you to zip all the files present in the specified directory.
If you're on a PC using Windows, right-click the folder and in the menu that appears you should select Send to and then under that menu select Compressed (zipped) folder. You then should see a zip-file with the same name as the folder you created appear. You should upload this zip-file on the submission page.
The easiest way is to use shutil.make_archive. It supports both zip and tar formats.
import shutil shutil.make_archive(output_filename, 'zip', dir_name) If you need to do something more complicated than zipping the whole directory (such as skipping certain files), then you'll need to dig into the zipfile module as others have suggested.
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