Compress Files into Zip Format

This function takes a list of files and an output directory, and compresses all files in the list into a zip format, saving it in the output directory.

Technology Stack : os, zipfile, shutil

Code Type : File compression

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def zipfiles(file_list, output_dir):
    import os
    import zipfile
    import shutil
    
    # Ensure output directory exists
    if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
        os.makedirs(output_dir)

    # Create a zip file and add files to it
    zip_filename = os.path.join(output_dir, 'archive.zip')
    with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, 'w') as zipf:
        for file in file_list:
            zipf.write(file, os.path.basename(file))

    return zip_filename