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tgoossens
tgoossens

Reputation: 9856

python zipfile directory gets copied too

I'm experimenting with the zipfile module of python the code i currently use is this:

z = zipfile.ZipFile("jar/algorithms.jar", "w")
z.write('directory/QuickSort.class')

The problem is that my file is added to the jar as following:

algorithms.jar>directory>QuickSort.class

What I want is: algorithms.jar>QuickSort.class

How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6861

Answers (3)

sparrow
sparrow

Reputation: 11460

Consider the following example. This will create a zipped archive of a folder in that same folder and remove the directory structure from the zipped output file.

import os
import zipfile
mydir = r'c:\temp\filestozip' #all the files in this directory will be archived
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(mydir + '\\myzipfile.zip', "w")
for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk(mydir):
    for filename in files:
        if not filename.endswith('.zip'): #
            zf.write(os.path.join(dirname, filename),arcname=filename)
zf.close()

Upvotes: 0

sandinmyjoints
sandinmyjoints

Reputation: 1976

You can supply the name you want the file to have in the archive as the second parameter to write like this:

In [39]: z = zipfile.ZipFile("jar/algorithms.jar", "w")

In [40]: z.printdir()
File Name                                             Modified             Size

In [41]: z.write("directory/QuickSort.class", "QuickSort.class")

In [42]: z.printdir()
File Name                                             Modified             Size
QuickSort.class                                2011-08-10 15:26:47            0

In [43]: z.close()

Also see the zipfile documentation.

Upvotes: 0

Ofir
Ofir

Reputation: 8362

You can use the arcname parameter - see http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html#zipfile.ZipFile.write

z.write("directory/QuickSort.class","QuickSort.class")

Upvotes: 7

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