title: How to zip only the files inside the folder and not the sub folders?
body: <p>I have a folder structure as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/sample/debug/
      --debug.exe
      --sample.exe
      --sample.pdb
      --debug.pdb
      --sample.dll
      --debug.dll
      /config
          --sample.txt
          --new.txt
      /general
          --general.txt
          --code.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, what I want is only to zip the files inside debug and not the subfolders like /config and /general. I tried as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import zipfile
  import os
  
  def append( dir_name ):
      ret_val = []
      fileList = []
      for file in os.listdir(dir_name):
          try:
              dirfile = os.path.join(dir_name, file)
          except Exception:
              err = sys.exc_info()
              print ("Error!", err)
          fileList.append(dirfile)
          ret_val = fileList
      return ret_val
  
  def zip( fileList, archive, root ):
      ret_val = 0
      try:
          zip_folder_contents = zipfile.ZipFile(archive, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
      except Exception:
          err = sys.exc_info()
          print ("Error!",err)
          exit( 1 )
      for filename in fileList:
          zip_folder_contents.write(filename,
                  filename[len(root):].lstrip(os.path.sep).lstrip(os.path.altsep))
      zip_folder_contents.close()
      return ret_val
  
  make(append_files_in_zipfolder("D:/sample/debug"), "debug.zip",
                                 "D:/sample/debug")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now when I execute above I get error as permission denied "D:/sample/debug\\config". Hence, I am not able to remove this error so I thought to only include the files inside the zip folder and exclude the subfolders. So, is there anyway how to do that or some way I can remove this permission related error I am getting. Please suggest.</p>