Python - Zip , Unzip File with python 3

#INTRODUCTION
Hey guys! How have you been doing? I hope you are doing good :). Ok, Let get into our today topic. Recently , I have been working on the python project which related to Compression , Extracting file and I think it is a useful function of python so I want to share it with you.Ok, Let's get started.

#GET STARTED

###1. Zip File

Many people when they are working with Zip file , they only use Python zipFile Library. But today I will introduce you to another library which is shutil. It is really simple and easy to compress a file.

Example

Before is my project structure.

let say , I want to zip the .txt file. We can do it like this (see below code)

import shutil

zipOutputName = "archive"
fileType = "zip"
path = "./testZip"
fileName = "XN92RSUKPS.txt"

shutil.make_archive(zipOutputName,fileType,path,fileName)

1. First you need to import shutil Library
2. zipOutputName : is the output name of your zip file.
3. fileType : type of compression.
4. path : the path to the file or directory
5. fileName : file that we need to zip.

We also can zip the whole directory (see below code)

import shutil

zipOutputName = "archive"
fileType = "zip"
path = "."
fileName = "testZip"

shutil.make_archive(zipOutputName,fileType,path,fileName)

###2. Unzip File
Ok, after we learn how to compress file. Now it time to learn how to extract file. This time we will use zipFile library.

import zipfile

zipfilePath = ("./archive.zip")
zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfilePath)
zip.extractall(".")
zip.close()

1. So to unzip , first we import zipfile library
2. Then we need to provide file / directory path.
3. after that we give the output path to extractall method.