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)).