import zipfile import sys import os # compress file function def zip_file(file_path): compress_file = zipfile.ZipFile(file_path + '.zip', 'w') compress_file.write(path, compress_type=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) compress_file.close() # Declare the function to return all file paths of the particular directory def retrieve_file_paths(dir_name): # setup file paths variable file_paths = [] # Read all directory, subdirectories and file lists for root, directories, files in os.walk(dir_name): for filename in files: # Create the full file path by using os module. file_path = os.path.join(root, filename) file_paths.append(file_path) # return all paths return file_paths def zip_dir(dir_path, file_paths): # write files and folders to a zipfile compress_dir = zipfile.ZipFile(dir_path + '.zip', 'w') with compress_dir: # write each file separately for file in file_paths: compress_dir.write(file) if __name__ == "__main__": path = sys.argv[1] if os.path.isdir(path): files_path = retrieve_file_paths(path) # print the list of files to be zipped print('The following list of files will be zipped:') for file_name in files_path: print(file_name) zip_dir(path, files_path) elif os.path.isfile(path): print('The %s will be zipped:' % path) zip_file(path) else: print('a special file(socket,FIFO,device file), please input file or dir')