creating zip archive in python

Question

what am I missing in this code (#instead of commented line in code) to have test.py file archived in zip folder ?

#!/usr/bin/python
import zipfile,os
path='/home/user/Desktop'

def zipdir(path, zipf):
  for file in os.walk(path):
    #zipf.write(os.path.join(root,path))




if __name__ == "__main__":

  zipf = zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', 'w')
  zipdir(path, zipf)
  zipf.close()

Answer 1

The problem is that you're not unpacking all the variables returned by the os.walk() function, so you're telling the program to zip tuples and not paths. You have to make the following changes in the zipdir() function:

def zipdir(path, ziph):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for file in files:
           ziph.write(os.path.join(root,file))

Check the following answer: How to create a zip archive of a directory