How to convert a directory to a ZIP?

Question

I wanted to know how to convert a file (x) directly to a ZIP (x.zip), and convert it back into a normal file, using python (3.7)

Answer 1

I use shutil

import shutil
#creating archive
shutil.make_archive(output_filename, 'zip', dir_name)
#unpacking archive
shutil.unpack_archive(input_filename, extract_dir, 'zip') 

you can also do with zipfile

import os
import zipfile
#creating zip file
zf = zipfile.ZipFile("myzipfile.zip", "w")
for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk("mydirectory"):
    zf.write(dirname)
    for filename in files:
        zf.write(os.path.join(dirname, filename))
zf.close()
#extracting zip file
with zipfile.ZipFile("myzipfile.zip", 'r') as zip: 
    zip.extractall()