Minecraft Texture Pack Zipper

import zipfile
import glob, os

zipFile = "Minimalism.zip";
folder = "Minimalist";
printAll = False;

def zipper(dir, zip_file,doPrint):
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_file, 'w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    root_len = len(os.path.abspath(dir))
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir):
        archive_root = os.path.abspath(root)[root_len:]
        for f in files:
            fullpath = os.path.join(root, f)
            archive_name = os.path.join(archive_root, f)
            if doPrint:
                print(f)
            zip.write(fullpath, archive_name, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    zip.close()
    return zip_file

try:
    os.remove(zipFile);
    print("destroying existing zip");
except:
    print("no file to destroy, continuing");

try:
    zipper("Minimalist",zipFile,printAll);
    print("zipping successfull");
except:
    print("zipping failed");

#The majority of this code was stolen from Corey Goldberg, modified slightly to zip files for minecraft
#http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2009/07/python-zip-directories-recursively.html