Ways to ZIP a file in Python

In this post, we will go through how to ZIP a file in Python, how to extract files from a ZIP file or how to print contents of a ZIP file using Python. Before that let's talk about a ZIP file.

What is a ZIP file?

ZIP file is an archive file which supports lossless data compression. It can contain several files and folders or other compressed ZIP files in it. This format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. So, basically ZIP file is used to compress...