import os
path="/storeM/fat/screenshots/active/"
archiveFilename = '/storeM/fat/screenshots/7z/test2.7z'
#ensure path string ends in '/'
if path[len(path)-1] != '/':
path = path + '/'
dirList=os.listdir(path)
maxStackSize = 20
splitBatches = {}
batchStack = 0
currentStack = []
currentStackNumber = 0
#let's make some batches of a given size (ignore anything greater for now)
for file in dirList:
if batchStack < maxStackSize:
batchStack = batchStack + 1
currentStack.append(path + file)
else:
batchStack = 0
splitBatches[currentStackNumber]=currentStack
currentStack = []
currentStackNumber = currentStackNumber + 1
for batch in splitBatches:
batchOfFilenames = str(splitBatches[batch]).replace(',','').replace("'",'').replace('"','').replace('[','').replace(']','')
os.system('7za a '+ archiveFilename +' '+ batchOfFilenames)
os.system('rm '+ batchOfFilenames)