Erik Purins added the comment: Note that the zipfile module does not include a dereference option, but tarfile does.
The following links to python examples show that users are writing zipfiles with symlinks, so it is possible to preserve them in a zip archive. https://gist.github.com/kgn/610907 http://doeidoei.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/compressing-files-with-python-symlink-trouble/ Maybe the right start is to add a dereference option to zipfile module? ---------- nosy: +epu _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12585> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
