Recursive zipping of Directories in Windows

Hi

I am a python novice and I am trying to write a python script (most of
the code is borrowed) to Zip a directory containing some other
directories and files. The script zips all the files fine but when it
tries to zip one of the directories it fails with the following
error:
"IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\aaa\\temp'"

The script I am using is:

import zipfile, os

def toZip( directory, zipFile ):
"""Sample for storing directory to a ZipFile"""
z = zipfile.ZipFile(
zipFile, 'w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED
)
def walker( zip, directory, files, root=directory ):
for file in files:
file = os.path.join( directory, file )
# yes, the +1 is hacky...
archiveName = file[len(os.path.commonprefix( (root,
file) ))+1:]
zip.write( file, archiveName, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED )
print file
os.path.walk( directory, walker, z )
z.close()
return zipFile


if __name__ == "__main__":
toZip( 'c:\\aaa', 'c:\\aaa\\test.zip' )

I have tried to set the permissions on the folder, but when I check
the directory permissions it is set back to "Read Only"

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Johan Balt

.

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