Why can't I zip a file in Python?

Question

So I created a script in Python that takes a user specified file and zips it up as a zip file.

When I tried it out it doesn't work my code complains how the path is not found I have tried so many different things and looked at a lot of tutorials about how to do this none work.

This is my code:

import zipfile
FZ = 0
F = input("What file do you want zipped? ")
FZ = FZ + 1
with zipfile.ZipFile(("ZipFile", FZ, ".zip"), "w") as z:
    z.write(F)
input("Done! Press any key to quit... ")

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It appears you are confused about how to build strings, based on this line:

with zipfile.ZipFile(("ZipFile", FZ, ".zip"), "w") as z:

If this were a print statement, doing print("ZipFile", FZ, ".zip") would correctly output something like ZipFile 1.zip . However that's a specific feature of how the print function works; in general, a tuple of strings does not magically get converted into just one long string. If you want to store a string, or pass one to a function, that looks like how you want, you'll have to use one of the many existing ways to put a variable into a string . For example, as an f-string:

with zipfile.ZipFile(f"ZipFile{FZ}.zip", "w") as z:

In that case, if FZ was 1 , the first argument would be passed as "ZipFile1.zip"