Compressing Files (Zip and Tar archives)

Zip with shutil (quick)

make_zip.py

import shutil
 
# creates my_backup.zip
shutil.make_archive("my_backup", "zip", root_dir="./demo")

make_zip.py

import shutil
 
# creates my_backup.zip
shutil.make_archive("my_backup", "zip", root_dir="./demo")

make_tar.py

import tarfile
 
with tarfile.open("demo.tar.gz", "w:gz") as tar:
    tar.add("./demo", arcname="demo")

make_tar.py

import tarfile
 
with tarfile.open("demo.tar.gz", "w:gz") as tar:
    tar.add("./demo", arcname="demo")

extract_zip.py

import zipfile
 
with zipfile.ZipFile("my_backup.zip") as z:
    z.extractall("./restored")

extract_zip.py

import zipfile
 
with zipfile.ZipFile("my_backup.zip") as z:
    z.extractall("./restored")

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