Python zipfile: Zip empty directories.

[Peter Otten]

Mark Wondratschek wrote:

> How can I pack empty directories? I want to mirror a whole directory
> structure in an archive. So I want to zip non-empty AND empty directories.
> Any ideas?

As far as I remember, the zip format does not support storing empty
directories. But you could put a file with an easily recognizable name in
all empty directories, e.g. __empty__.

Peter