Skip paths when using zipfile-module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Weholt wrote:
> Just started using the zipfile-module in Python 2.0 and it works great, but
> I need to skip the path info. I want to create an archive with just the
> files in them, stored without paths. Didn't see any options/info about this
> in the docs. Any clues ?

pass the name you want in the archive as the second
argument to the write method:

# zipfile-example-3.py
# (from the upcoming second edition of the eff-bot guide)

import zipfile
import glob, os

file = zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip", "w")

for name in glob.glob("samples/*"):
    file.write(name, os.path.basename(name), zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

# -rest of example snipped-

Hope this helps!

Cheers /F

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