Re: creating zipfile with symlinks

2016-03-04 Thread crankypuss
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-03-04, crankypuss wrote: >> Larry Martell wrote: > [...] >>> Which I don't love as a solution. Anyone know a cleaner way to get >>> zipfile to zip the links? >> >> I don't even know what "zipfile" i

Re: creating zipfile with symlinks

2016-03-04 Thread crankypuss
Larry Martell wrote: > 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.word

Re: looking into python...

2016-03-04 Thread crankypuss
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:45 pm, crankypuss wrote: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> crankypuss writes: >>> >>>> "Python code can be packaged into stand-alone executable programs >>>> for some of the mo

Re: looking into python...

2016-03-03 Thread crankypuss
Ben Finney wrote: > crankypuss writes: > >> "Python code can be packaged into stand-alone executable programs for >> some of the most popular operating systems, allowing the distribution >> of Python-based software for use on those environments without >> req

looking into python...

2016-03-02 Thread crankypuss
"Python code can be packaged into stand-alone executable programs for some of the most popular operating systems, allowing the distribution of Python-based software for use on those environments without requiring the installation of a Python interpreter." (wikipedia) How correct is that? Which