Background I am trying to zip a directory with python shutil like this: shutil.make_archive("~/Desktop/zipfile", 'zip', "~/Documents/foldertozip") but the result only zips the files inside "foldertozip". So for instance, foldertozip -- file1 -- file2 zipfile.zip -- file1 -- file2 On the other hand, if I zip it from windows file explorer or mac finder, I get the following: foldertozip -- file1 -- file2 zipfile.zip -- foldertozip -- file1 -- file2 Question How can I use shutil to do the same thing that I could do from a file explorer and include the base directory? I know I could copy "foldertozip" to a folder with the same name and then zip that folder, but I would prefer a cleaner solution if at all possible. Continue reading...
