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 themselves, which is what I wanted and expected. Googling I found this:
https://doeidoei.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/compressing-files-with-python-symlink-trouble/ Which I don't love as a solution. Anyone know a cleaner way to get zipfile to zip the links? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list