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

The earlier answers did not work for me (on OS X 10.12). I found that as well as the executable flags (octal 755), I also need to set the "regular file" flag (octal 100000). I found this mentioned here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14705/the-zip-formats-external-file-attribute

A complete example:

zipname = "test.zip"
filename = "test-executable"

zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

f = open(filename, 'r')
bytes = f.read()
f.close()

info = zipfile.ZipInfo(filename)
info.date_time = time.localtime()
info.external_attr = 0100755 << 16L

zip.writestr(info, bytes, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

zip.close()

A complete example of my specific usecase, creating a zip of a .app so that everything in the folder Contents/MacOS/ is executable: https://gist.github.com/Draknek/3ce889860cea4f59838386a79cc11a85