How do I zip the contents of a folder using python (version 2.5)?

Question

Once I have all the files I require in a particular folder, I would like my python script to zip the folder contents.

Is this possible?

And how could I go

Answer 1

Here is a recursive version

def zipfolder(path, relname, archive):
    paths = os.listdir(path)
    for p in paths:
        p1 = os.path.join(path, p) 
        p2 = os.path.join(relname, p)
        if os.path.isdir(p1): 
            zipfolder(p1, p2, archive)
        else:
            archive.write(p1, p2) 

def create_zip(path, relname, archname):
    archive = zipfile.ZipFile(archname, "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    if os.path.isdir(path):
        zipfolder(path, relname, archive)
    else:
        archive.write(path, relname)
    archive.close()