How to create a zip archive of a directory?

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The easiest way is to use shutil.make_archive. It supports both zip and tar formats.

import shutil
shutil.make_archive(output_filename, 'zip', dir_name)

If you need to do something more complicated than zipping the whole directory (such as skipping certain files), then you’ll need to dig into the zipfile module as others have suggested.

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