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projects/write script to compress folder and files/README.md

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+## write script to compress folder and files
+
+### usage
+
+python zipfiles.py file_name(or folder name)
+
+example:
+    python zipfiles.py test.txt
+    python zipfiles.py ./test (folder)
+
+A Compressed file("filename.zip") will be generated after the program is run

projects/write script to compress folder and files/zipfiles.py

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+import zipfile
+import sys
+import os
+
+
+# compress file function
+def zip_file(file_path):
+    compress_file = zipfile.ZipFile(file_path + '.zip', 'w')
+    compress_file.write(path, compress_type=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
+    compress_file.close()
+
+
+# Declare the function to return all file paths of the particular directory
+def retrieve_file_paths(dir_name):
+    # setup file paths variable
+    file_paths = []
+
+    # Read all directory, subdirectories and file lists
+    for root, directories, files in os.walk(dir_name):
+        for filename in files:
+            # Create the full file path by using os module.
+            file_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
+            file_paths.append(file_path)
+
+    # return all paths
+    return file_paths
+
+
+def zip_dir(dir_path, file_paths):
+    # write files and folders to a zipfile
+    compress_dir = zipfile.ZipFile(dir_path + '.zip', 'w')
+    with compress_dir:
+        # write each file separately
+        for file in file_paths:
+            compress_dir.write(file)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    path = sys.argv[1]
+
+    if os.path.isdir(path):
+        files_path = retrieve_file_paths(path)
+        # print the list of files to be zipped
+        print('The following list of files will be zipped:')
+        for file_name in files_path:
+            print(file_name)
+        zip_dir(path, files_path)
+    elif os.path.isfile(path):
+        print('The %s will be zipped:' % path)
+        zip_file(path)
+    else:
+        print('a special file(socket,FIFO,device file), please input file or dir')