Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm creating an archive of a directory using shutil.make_archive and > need to skip a single file if it is present in that directory. Is > there a way to do this or should I be looking to ZipFile to meet this > need?
You can create a hierarchy of files the way you want it, and then use ‘shutil.make_archive’ once the tree is the way you want it. * Use ‘tempfile.mkdtemp’ to create a unique temporary working directory, and bind its name to ‘working_dir’. * Use ‘shutil.copytree’ to copy the entire hierarchy from its permanent location to the temporary ‘working_dir’ location. * Use other ‘shutil’ functions to manipulate the files in ‘working_dir’ the way you want. * Use ‘shutil.make_archive’ to create an archive of the files from ‘working_dir’. * Use ‘shutil.rmtree’ to remove the ‘working_dir’. -- \ “All television is educational television. The question is: | `\ what is it teaching?” —Nicholas Johnson | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
