Python zip multiple directories into one zip file

Question

I have a top directory ds237 which has multiple sub-directories under it as below:

ds237/
├── dataset_description.json
├── derivatives
├── sub-0         


        

Answer 1

Looking at https://stackoverflow.com/a/1855118/375530, you can re-use that answer's function to add a directory to a ZipFile.

import os
import zipfile


def zipdir(path, ziph):
    # ziph is zipfile handle
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for file in files:
            ziph.write(os.path.join(root, file),
                       os.path.relpath(os.path.join(root, file),
                                       os.path.join(path, '..')))


def zipit(dir_list, zip_name):
    zipf = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_name, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    for dir in dir_list:
        zipdir(dir, zipf)
    zipf.close()

The zipit function should be called with your pre-chunked list and a given name. You can use string formatting if you want to use a programmatic name (e.g. "path/to/zipfile/sub{}-{}.zip".format(start, end)).

Answer 2

You can use subprocess calling 'zip' and passing the paths as arguments

Answer 3

The following will give you zip file with a first folder ds100:

import os
import zipfile    

def zipit(folders, zip_filename):
    zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

    for folder in folders:
        for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(folder):
            for filename in filenames:
                zip_file.write(
                    os.path.join(dirpath, filename),
                    os.path.relpath(os.path.join(dirpath, filename), os.path.join(folders[0], '../..')))

    zip_file.close()


folders = [
    "/Users/aba/ds100/sub-01",
    "/Users/aba/ds100/sub-02",
    "/Users/aba/ds100/sub-03",
    "/Users/aba/ds100/sub-04",
    "/Users/aba/ds100/sub-05"]

zipit(folders, "/Users/aba/ds100/sub01-05.zip")

For example sub01-05.zip would have a structure similar to:

ds100
├── sub-01
|   ├── 1
|       ├── 2
|   ├── 1
|   ├── 2
├── sub-02
    ├── 1
        ├── 2
    ├── 1
    ├── 2