(Chilkat2-Python) Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns.

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import sys
import chilkat2

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

zip = chilkat2.Zip()

success = zip.NewZip("test.zip")
if (success != True):
    print(zip.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
# to be excluded:
sa = chilkat2.StringArray()
success = sa.Append("*.bak")
success = sa.Append("*.tmp")

# Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
zip.SetExclusions(sa)

# Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
# not read the file contents or append them to the zip
# object in memory.  It simply appends references
# to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
# or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
# and encrypted.
recurse = True
success = zip.AppendFiles("/temp/a/*",recurse)

success = zip.WriteZipAndClose()
if (success != True):
    print(zip.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Zip Created!")