Combine and Compress Files into ZIP and TAR

This function combines two files into a ZIP file, then converts it to a GZIP-compressed TAR file, and finally deletes the ZIP file.

Technology Stack : os, shutil, zipfile, tarfile

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty :

                
                    
def zip_file(file1, file2):
    import os
    import shutil
    import zipfile
    import tarfile

    base_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file1))[0]
    zip_name = f"{base_name}_combined.zip"

    with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_name, 'w') as zipf:
        zipf.write(file1)
        zipf.write(file2)

    with tarfile.open(f"{base_name}_combined.tar", "w:gz") as tar:
        tar.add(file1, arcname=os.path.basename(file1))
        tar.add(file2, arcname=os.path.basename(file2))

    shutil.rmtree(f"{base_name}_combined.zip")