How do I set permissions (attributes) on a file in a ZIP file using Python's zipfile module?

Question

When I extract files from a ZIP file created with the Python zipfile module, all the files are not writable, read only etc.

The file is being created and extracted u

Answer 1

Look at this: Set permissions on a compressed file in python

I'm not entirely sure if that's what you want, but it seems to be.

The key line appears to be:

zi.external_attr = 0777 << 16L

It looks like it sets the permissions to 0777 there.