ZipFile puts all parent directories inside newly created zip file-CodePudding

I want to create a zipfile from a select few individual files. Here is my code so far:

from zipfile import ZipFile
from os import walk

name = 'Mia'

allFiles = next(walk("C:\\Users\\jack_l\\Documents\\Image-Line\\FL Studio\\Projects\\finished\\UPLOAD"), (None, None, []))[2]

allStemFiles = []

for counter in range(len(allFiles)):
    if str('STEMS - ' name) in allFiles[counter]:
        allStemFiles.append(allFiles[counter])

myZipFile = ZipFile(r'C:\Users\jack_l\Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Projects\finished\UPLOAD\beatTitle.zip', 'w')

for counter in range(len(allStemFiles)):
    myZipFile.write('C:\\Users\\jack_l\\Documents\\Image-Line\\FL Studio\\Projects\\finished\\UPLOAD\\' allStemFiles[counter])

myZipFile.close()

My issue is that it does create a zipfile in the correct directory (C:..../UPLOAD), but the zipfile it creates contains 8 layers of folders over the files. Like the zip file contains a folder called Users, which contains a folder called jack_l, and so on until a folder called UPLOAD contains my files.

I tried to fix this by writing:

myZipFile.write(allStemFiles[counter])

instead of:

myZipFile.write('C:\\Users\\jack_l\\Documents\\Image-Line\\FL Studio\\Projects\\finished\\UPLOAD\\' allStemFiles[counter])

but then I get the following error:

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just to re-iterate; I want a zipfile only containing the files (no folders whatsoever). Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

You can change the working directory to the base directory of files to be archived first so that all paths become relative to the base directory:

from zipfile import ZipFile
import os

name = 'Mia'

os.chdir("C:\\Users\\jack_l\\Documents\\Image-Line\\FL Studio\\Projects\\finished\\UPLOAD")

allFiles = next(os.walk("."), (None, None, []))[2]

allStemFiles = []

for counter in range(len(allFiles)):
    if str('STEMS - ' name) in allFiles[counter]:
        allStemFiles.append(allFiles[counter])

myZipFile = ZipFile('beatTitle.zip', 'w')

for counter in range(len(allStemFiles)):
    myZipFile.write(allStemFiles[counter])

myZipFile.close()