Archiving directory without external tools?

[Fredrik Lundh]

<iamlevis3 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does Python have any internal facility for creating recursive archives
> of a directory?  I'd like to avoid reliance on extenal tools
> (winzip,tar,etc).

import os, sys, zipfile

directory = sys.argv[1]

zip = zipfile. ZipFile(directory + ".zip", "w")

for path, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
    for file in files:
        file = os.path.join(path, file)
        print file, "..."
        zip.write(file)

print "done"

tweak as necessary.

(did you even look in the library reference, btw?)

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