archiving symlinks with python zipfile

Question

I have a script that creates zip files of dirs containing symlinks. I was surprised to find that the zipfiles have zipped the targets of the links as opposed to the links th

Answer 1

zipfile doesn't appear to support storing symbolic links. The way to store them in a ZIP is actually not part of the format and is only available as a custom extension in some implementations. In particular, Info-ZIP's implementation supports them so you can delegate to it instead. Make sure your decompression software can handle such archives - as I said, this feature is not standardized.