I was trying to find a way to append a file into a zip file in python, but I could not find an easy way to do it.

When using zipfile built into python, using the 'a' append method doesn't overwrite files the way I expected it to. So this python module will overwrite the existing file when appending a file (which to me is the obvious solution).

There's no lack of StackOverflow posts and answers, but all of those were too specific to the specific post/issue.

So I decided to scratch my own itch, and make a library to handle it for myself and others.

https://pypi.org/project/appendzip/0.0.4/

from appendzip.appendzip import appendzip
# before appendzip calendar.txt in the zip archive test.zip contains 2021-01-02
# before appendzip calendar.txt outside the zip contains 2022-02-03
appendzip(
            pathlib.Path('test.zip'),
            pathlib.Path('calendar.txt'),
            'calendar.txt'
)
# after appendzip calendar.txt inside the zip contains 2022-02-03
# after, there is still only one file in the zip archive test.zip

MIT licensed

example of how to use it:

install (on Mac)
$ python3 -m pip install appendzip

from appendzip.appendzip import appendzip
# before appendzip calendar.txt in the zip archive test.zip contains 2021-01-02
# before appendzip calendar.txt outside the zip contains 2022-02-03
appendzip(
            pathlib.Path('test.zip'),
            pathlib.Path('calendar.txt'),
            'calendar.txt'
)
# after appendzip calendar.txt inside the zip contains 2022-02-03
# after, there is still only one file in the zip archive test.zip