Stop shutil.make_archive adding archive to itself

Question

I have App dir inside Release dir

$ cd Release
$ tree
.
`-- App
    |-- App.exe
    ..........

and I am trying to

Answer 1

Here's a couple of solutions that worked or me:

# curdir: Release
shutil.make_archive('App-1.0', 'zip', '.', 'App')

# curdir: ../Release
shutil.make_archive('Release/App-1.0', 'zip', 'Release', 'App')

Answer 2

What I learned while fighting with this is this:

shutil.make_archive('App-1.0', 'zip', '.', 'App')

While 'App-1.0' is technically a "filename", it must be represented as a path to the file without the extension ('c:\myfiles\myzipfile'). I have not played with all the variants for path names yet, so some of the shortcuts likely work (such as: 'Release/App-1.0').