Python ZIP file with Example

Now your archive.zip file will appear on your O.S (Windows Explorer)

Step 3) When you double-click on the file, you will see the list all the files in there.

Step 4) In Python we can have more control over archive since we can define which specific file to include under archive. In our case, we will include two files under archive "guru99.txt" and "guru99.txt.bak".

Code Explanation

• Import Zipfile class from zip file Python module. This module gives full control over creating zip files
• We create a new Zipfile with name ( "testguru99.zip, "w")
• Creating a new Zipfile class, requires to pass in permission because it's a file, so you need to write information into the file as newzip
• We used variable "newzip" to refer to the zip file we created
• Using the write function on the "newzip" variable, we add the files "guru99.txt" and "guru99.txt.bak" to the archive

When you execute the code you can see the file is created on the right side of the panel with name "guru99.zip"

Note: Here we don't give any command to "close" the file like "newzip.close" because we use "With" scope lock, so when program falls outside of this scope the file will be cleaned up and is closed automatically.

Step 5) When you -> right click on file (testguru99.zip) and -> select your O.S (Windows Explorer), it will show the archive files in the folder as shown below.

When you double click on file "testguru99.zip", it will open another window, and this will show the files included in it.

Here is the complete code

Python 2 Example

import os
import shutil
from zipfile import ZipFile
from os import path
from shutil import make_archive

def main():
# Check if file exists
	if path.exists("guru99.txt"):
# get the path to the file in the current directory
	src = path.realpath("guru99.txt");
# rename the original file
	os.rename("career.guru99.txt","guru99.txt")
# now put things into a ZIP archive
	root_dir,tail = path.split(src)
    shutil.make_archive("guru99 archive", "zip", root_dir)
# more fine-grained control over ZIP files
	with ZipFile("testguru99.zip","w") as newzip:
	newzip.write("guru99.txt")
	    newzip.write("guru99.txt.bak")
if __name__== "__main__":
	  main()

Python 3 Example

import os
import shutil
from zipfile import ZipFile
from os import path
from shutil import make_archive

    # Check if file exists
       if path.exists("guru99.txt"):
    # get the path to the file in the current directory
        src = path.realpath("guru99.txt");
    # rename the original file
        os.rename("career.guru99.txt","guru99.txt")
    # now put things into a ZIP archive
        root_dir,tail = path.split(src)
        shutil.make_archive("guru99 archive","zip",root_dir)
    # more fine-grained control over ZIP files
        with ZipFile("testguru99.zip", "w") as newzip:
            newzip.write("guru99.txt")
            newzip.write("guru99.txt.bak")

Summary

• To zip entire directory use command "shutil.make_archive("name","zip", root_dir)
• To select the files to zip use command "ZipFile.write(filename)"