#!/usr/bin/env python

# from
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296499/how-do-i-zip-the-contents-of-a-folder-using-python-version-2-5

from contextlib import closing
from zipfile import ZipFile, ZIP_DEFLATED
import os

def zipdir(basedir, archivename):
    if not os.path.isdir(basedir):
        raise OSError('No such directory', basedir)
    with closing(ZipFile(archivename, "w", ZIP_DEFLATED)) as z:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(basedir):
            #NOTE: ignore empty directories
            for fn in files:
                absfn = os.path.join(root, fn)
                zfn = absfn[len(basedir)+len(os.sep):] #XXX: relative path
                z.write(absfn, zfn)