zipper.py

"""
    Written under python 2.7.9
    Usage:
        zipper.py filelist zipfile

        filelist should have list of files without quotes\etc, something like this:
            '''
            ra_adminlog_EU.txt
            ra_adminlog_EU2.txt
            D:\folder1\folder3\ra_adminlog_NA.txt
            folder1\ra_adminlog_EUcustom.txt
            '''
"""

import os
import sys
import time
import zipfile

# setting starttime pure for debug
start_time = time.time()
# initializing filelist
list = []
# setting valuable with filename of list of files
try:
    filelist_filename = sys.argv[1]
except:
    filelist_filename = 'filelist.txt'
# setting output zipfile
try:
    myzip_filename = sys.argv[1]
except:
    myzip_filename = 'output.zip'
# reading filelist from external file
with open(filelist_filename, 'r') as fo: # reading whole file into memory
    list = fo.read().splitlines()
fo.close()

# writing zipfile
with zipfile.ZipFile('some.zip', 'w') as myzip:
    OSPATH = os.getcwd().lower()
    for filename in list:
        filename = filename.lower().replace(OSPATH+'\\', '')
        try:
            myzip.write(filename)
        except:
            print 'Failed to write %s to zip' % (filename)
    myzip.close()

print 'Finished in %s!' % (time.time() - start_time)