#!/usr/bin/env python import os import zipfile # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855095/how-to-create-a-zip-archive-of-a-directory-in-python def zipdir(path, ziph): # ziph is zipfile handle for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for file in files: ziph.write(os.path.join(root, file)) # Maybe use cwd = os.getcwd() # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12092527/python-write-bytes-to-file def get_bytes_from_file(filename): return open(filename, "rb").read() # http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Read_a_file_into_a_byte_array#Python def write_bytes(write_bytes_where, mah_bytes): f = open(write_bytes_where, 'wb') f.write(mah_bytes) f.close() # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3451111/unzipping-files-in-python def unzip_file(file_path, output_path): with zipfile.ZipFile(file_path, 'r') as tyler_perry: tyler_perry.extractall(output_path) if __name__ == '__main__': # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5137497/find-current-directory-and-files-directory#5137509 dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) print(dir_path) # The next four lines are from # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855095/how-to-create-a-zip-archive-of-a-directory-in-python zipf = zipfile.ZipFile('Python.zip', 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) zipdir(dir_path, zipf) zipf.close() print('All files zipped successfully!') some_bytes = get_bytes_from_file("Python.zip") print(some_bytes) write_bytes('Python2.zip', some_bytes) unzip_file("Python.zip", "./what") ## Peach Pie is from https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/fe32017c-df1b-455c-9784-0f9b3a141717