[Tutor] How to skip a single file when using shutil.make_archive()

[Anthony Papillion]

Many thanks Ben! That is exactly what I was looking for and it's super
easy. Thanks again!

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:

> Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and
> > need to skip a single file if it is present in that directory. Is
> > there a way to do this or should I be looking to ZipFile to meet this
> > need?
>
> You can create a hierarchy of files the way you want it, and then use
> ‘shutil.make_archive’ once the tree is the way you want it.
>
> * Use ‘tempfile.mkdtemp’ to create a unique temporary working directory,
>   and bind its name to ‘working_dir’.
>
> * Use ‘shutil.copytree’ to copy the entire hierarchy from its permanent
>   location to the temporary ‘working_dir’ location.
>
> * Use other ‘shutil’ functions to manipulate the files in ‘working_dir’
>   the way you want.
>
> * Use ‘shutil.make_archive’ to create an archive of the files from
>   ‘working_dir’.
>
> * Use ‘shutil.rmtree’ to remove the ‘working_dir’.
>
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