Zip only files starting with mprm* into mprm.zip in python

Question

I am trying to write a code to zip files starting with mprm* to mprm.zip file. My directory has 100 different files with all different types of extension.

As in Bash we can do

zip -r pathtofile/mprm path2Destination/mprm*

is there something in python that can achieve same?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

(worked on python34)

import glob
from zipfile import ZipFile, ZIP_DEFLATED

files = glob.glob('mprm*') #find your stuff
z = ZipFile('mprm.zip', mode='w', compression=ZIP_DEFLATED) #change if needed
for f in files:
    z.write(f, f)
print ('done')