Zip and unzip files with python

Its easy to zip and unizip files with python built in zipfile module

For this we have to get the file location list . which files we wan to zip. we can use python glob to get the path

current example structure

├── file_location_list.py
└── NewFolder
    ├── image.png
    └── text.txt


import glob
files=glob.glob("NewFolder/*")
print(files)

It will print the result like this

['NewFolder/image.png', 'NewFolder/text.txt']

So it print all the file location in the NewFolder

In the previous example we got the file location list. Now we will get the list files and create a zip file


import glob
files=glob.glob("NewFolder/*")
print(files)


from zipfile import ZipFile

# Create a ZipFile object in write mode
with ZipFile('NewZipFile.zip', 'w') as z:
    for file in files:
        z.write(file)

print('successfully created zip file!')

Now unzip the files


from zipfile import ZipFile

# replace NewZipFile.zip with your zip file which you want to unzip
with ZipFile('NewZipFile.zip', 'r') as z:
    z.extractall()

print('Successfully unzipped files')