In this video, we have explained to you that how we can create zip files using python. First of all we have written a program in python to make zip files from existing files, after that we have written a program in python to add directories and multiple paths to our zip file. Pycharm IDE is used in this video.

Code for creating zip file from existing files:

• import zipfile
• zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(‘temp.zip’,‘w’)
• zip_file.write(‘temp.txt’, compress_type=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
• zip_file.close()

Code for adding directories and multiple paths to our zip file

# importing required modules
from zipfile import ZipFile
import os

def get_all_file_paths(directory):

 # initializing empty file paths list
 file_paths = []

 # crawling through directory and subdirectories
 for root, directories, files in os.walk(directory):
  for filename in files:
   # join the two strings in order to form the full filepath.
   filepath = os.path.join(root, filename)
   file_paths.append(filepath)

 # returning all file paths
 return file_paths

def main():
 # path to folder which needs to be zipped
 directory = './myfolder'

 # calling function to get all file paths in the directory
 file_paths = get_all_file_paths(directory)

 # printing the list of all files to be zipped
 print('Following files will be zipped in this program:')
 for file_name in file_paths:
  print(file_name)

 # writing files to a zipfile
 with ZipFile('myzipfile.zip','w') as zip:
  # writing each file one by one
  for file in file_paths:
   zip.write(file)

 print('All files zipped successfully!')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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