Question

This script saves the files as "/home/name/main/all my files and stuff". I want to save it as "main/all my files and stuff".

def zipit ():
  file_paths = ['/home/name/main/']
  buffer= StringIO.StringIO()
  z= zipfile.ZipFile( buffer, "w" )
  for p in file_paths:
    for dir, subdirs, files in os.walk(p):
      for f in files:
        z.write(os.path.join(dir, f))
  z.close()
  buffer.seek(0)
  final = HttpResponse(buffer.read())
  final['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=dbs_custom_library.zip'
  final['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-zip'
  return final

Answer 1

The problem is that zipfile stores the complete path you are giving to ZipFile.write. But you can modify the path in the zip with the arcname parameter (ref).

So you need just to strip off '/home/name/' from the filename:

filename = os.path.join(dir, f)
z.write(filename, arcname=filename[11:])