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From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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Subject: creating zipfile with symlinks
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:37:24 -0500
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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?