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  Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 15:58 -0500

#103991 — Re: creating zipfile with symlinks

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> 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.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?

Actually the code on that site doesn't work at all, so it's not a solution :-(

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