How to create a zip archive of a directory in Python

Question

How can I create a zip archive of a directory structure in Python?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

The easiest way is to use shutil.make_archive. It supports both zip and tar formats.

import shutil
shutil.make_archive(output_filename, 'zip', dir_name)

If you need to do something more complicated than zipping the whole directory, then you'll need to dig into the zipfile module as others have suggested.

Thank You!!