[Solved by deanhystad] Create a zip file using zipfile library

[DZ_Galaxy]

Peace
Hi everyone

when I create a zip file, it takes all the folders and adds them to the zip file
"user/files/programs/day44/img.png"
what I want is to store only the last folder
"day44/img.png"

with zipfile.ZipFile(f"{file_name}.zip", 'w') as f:
				for image_name in images_name_list:
					file = os.path.join(values['-SOURCEFOLDER-'],image_name)
					f.write(file)

in the images_name_list variable we have a list of image names and types:
img1.png,img2.png ...
values['-SOURCEFOLDER-'] is the folder path C:user/files/programs/day44

[deanhystad]

To be clear, you want the path in the zip file to start with "day44/" instead of "C:user/files/programs/day44/".

One way to do this is change directory to ""C:user/files/programs/" and use a relative path when you write the file. In the code below I want to zip some files from the current working directory, but I want to include the name of the directory in the zip file (not the full path). Since I write the files using a relative path, they appear in the zip file as a relative path.

import os
import zipfile
from pathlib import Path

cwd = Path(os.getcwd())
with zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip", "w") as f:
    os.chdir(cwd.parent)  # Change directory to parent directory
    for image_name in [f"dice{n}.png" for n in range(6)]:
       # Write files to the zip file
        file = os.path.join(cwd.name, image_name)
        f.write(file)
os.chdir(cwd)  # Move back to starting directory.

Another approach is to set the name used for the folder using the arcname argument. The code below uses arcname to "create" a folder named "images/" in the zipfile. When I open the zipfile the toplevel is "images/" and when I click on "images/" I see the png files.

import os
import zipfile

with zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip", "w") as f:
    for image_name in [f"dice{n}.png" for n in range(6)]:
        file = os.path.join(image_name)
        f.write(file, arcname=os.path.join("images/", image_name))

[DZ_Galaxy]

Thank you so much
by adding the argument "arcname" solved the problem

arcname=os.path.join("images/", image_name)