On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:38 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> Is it even possible to zip a link? >> >> A quick search came up with this: >> >> Are hard links possible within a zip archive? >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8859616/are-hard-links-possible-within-a-zip-archive > > Hard links are different. Symlinks are files containing the target > filename, with a special mode bit set. I'm not sure if it's a standard > feature of all zip archivers, but on my Debian system, I can use "zip > --symlinks" to create such a zip. How that will unzip on a system that > doesn't understand symlinks, I don't know. > > rosuav@sikorsky:~/tmp$ ls -l > total 4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rosuav rosuav 162 Mar 4 08:48 aaa.zip > lrwxrwxrwx 1 rosuav rosuav 4 Mar 4 08:49 qwer -> asdf > rosuav@sikorsky:~/tmp$ unzip -l aaa.zip > Archive: aaa.zip > Length Date Time Name > --------- ---------- ----- ---- > 4 2016-03-04 08:45 qwer > --------- ------- > 4 1 file > > > That's a broken symlink (there is no "asdf" in the directory), and zip > and unzip are both fine with that. > > Now, how the Python zipfile module handles this, I don't know. The > ZipInfo shows a file mode of 'lrwxrwxrwx', but when I call extract(), > it comes out as a regular file. You might have to do some work > manually, or else just drop to an external command with --symlinks.
Thanks. That's what I ended up doing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
