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+import os,os.path
+import zipfile
+ 
+def zip_dir(dirname,zipfilename):
+    filelist = []
+    if os.path.isfile(dirname):
+        filelist.append(dirname)
+    else :
+        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dirname):
+            for name in files:
+                filelist.append(os.path.join(root, name))
+        
+    zf = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfilename, "w", zipfile.zlib.DEFLATED)
+    for tar in filelist:
+        arcname = tar[len(dirname):]
+        #print arcname
+        zf.write(tar,arcname)
+    zf.close()
+ 
+ 
+def unzip_file(zipfilename, unziptodir):
+    if not os.path.exists(unziptodir): 
+        os.mkdir(unziptodir)
+    zfobj = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfilename)
+    for name in zfobj.namelist():
+        name = name.replace('\\','/')
+       
+        if name.endswith('/'):
+            os.mkdir(os.path.join(unziptodir, name))
+        else:            
+            ext_filename = os.path.join(unziptodir, name)
+            ext_dir= os.path.dirname(ext_filename)
+            if not os.path.exists(ext_dir) : 
+                os.mkdir(ext_dir)
+            outfile = open(ext_filename, 'wb')
+            outfile.write(zfobj.read(name))
+            outfile.close()
+ 
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    ## zip files
+    # dirname = 'ship'
+    # zipfilename = 'ship.zip'
+    # zip_dir(dirname, zipfilename)
+
+    ## unzip files
+    # zipfilename = 'ship.zip'
+    # unziptodir = 'ship'
+    # unzip_file(zipfilename, unziptodir)
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