Python zipfile: Zip empty directories.

[Mark Wondratschek]

Hi!
I hope it's a simple question:
How can I pack empty directories? I want to mirror a whole directory
structure in an archive. So I want to zip non-empty AND empty directories.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance!

Best regards

Mark

 

[Peter Otten]

How can I pack empty directories? I want to mirror a whole directory
structure in an archive. So I want to zip non-empty AND empty directories.
Any ideas?

As far as I remember, the zip format does not support storing empty
directories. But you could put a file with an easily recognizable name in
all empty directories, e.g. __empty__.

Peter

 

[Mark Wondratschek]

ThanX a lot Peter!

See what I've found (did not test it myself) googling for
zip empty directory:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-June/170517.html

Peter