on Creating zip file all folders from root directory are added

Question

I am trying to zip all the files and folders present in a folder3 using python.

I have used zipFile for this. The zip contains all the folders from the root directory to the directory I want to create zip folder of.

def CreateZip(dir_name):
    os.chdir(dir_name)
    zf = zipfile.ZipFile("temp.zip", "w")
    for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk(dir_name):
        zf.write(dirname)
        for filename in files:
            file=os.path.join(dirname, filename)
            zf.write(file)
    zf.printdir()
    zf.close()

Expected output:

toBeZippedcontent1\toBeZippedFile1.txt
toBeZippedcontent1\toBeZippedFile2.txt
toBeZippedcontent1\toBeZippedFile1.txt
toBeZippedcontent2\toBeZippedFile2.txt

Current output (folder structure inside zip file):

folder1\folder2\folder3\toBeZippedcontent1\toBeZippedFile1.txt
folder1\folder2\folder3\toBeZippedcontent1\toBeZippedFile2.txt
folder1\folder2\folder3\toBeZippedcontent2\toBeZippedFile1.txt
folder1\folder2\folder3\toBeZippedcontent2\toBeZippedFile2.txt

furas furas · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-20T11:51:54

walk() gives absolute path for dirname so join() create absolut path for your files.

You may have to remove folder1\folder2\folder3 from path to create relative path.

file = os.path.relpath(file)

zf.write(file)

You could try to slice it

file = file[len("folder1\folder2\folder3\\"):]

zf.write(file)

but relpath() should be better.

You can also use second argument to change path/name inside zip file

  z.write(file, 'path/filename.ext')

It can be useful if you run code from different folder and you don't use os.chdir() so you can't create relative path.

on Creating zip file all folders from root directory are added

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