Compress File List into Zip Archive

This function takes a list of files and an output directory, and compresses all the files in the list into a single zip file.

Technology Stack : os, zipfile, pathlib

Code Type : File compression

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def zipfiles(file_list, output_dir):
    import os
    import zipfile
    from pathlib import Path

    if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
        os.makedirs(output_dir)

    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