<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nOne of the most common requirements for people is to create a zip file from a set of files and folders. For this, you can use write() function as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
from zipfile import ZipFile
with ZipFile(\".\/data.zip\", \"w\") as zip:
zip.write('file1.txt')
zip.write('.\/projects')<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIn the above code, we have basically opened the target zip file in write mode. Then we have written individual file file1.txt and subfolder \/projects into the zip file. For each instance, we have called write() function to add to the zip file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to add files in a folder to a zip, you may want to get a list of its files and subfolders and <\/p>\n\n\n\n
from zipfile import ZipFile
file_paths=[]
directory='\/home\/ubuntu\/projects'
for root, directories, files in os.walk(directory):
for filename in files:
filepath = os.path.join(root, filename)
file_paths.append(filepath)
with ZipFile(\".\/data.zip\", \"w\") as zip:
for file in file_paths:
zip.write(file)
<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIn the above code, we first go through the names of files and subfolders of ‘\/home\/ubuntu\/projects’ and store their full paths in a list. Then we loop through this list and add each of these files and folders, one by one, to the zip file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>How to Read Zip File Without Opening<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSometimes, you may want to just read the content of a single file without extracting it to the disk. Here is an example to read file test.txt in our zip file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
from zipfile import ZipFile
with zipfile.ZipFile(\".\/data.zip\",\"r\") as zip:
with zip.open(\"data\/assets\/test.txt\") as fp:
print(fp.read().decode())<\/pre>\n\n\n\nIn the above code, we open the zip file in read mode. Then we call open() function on this zip file handler. Lastly, we call read().decode() function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n