creating zipfile with symlinks

From	Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	creating zipfile with symlinks
Date	2016-03-03 13:37 -0500
Message-ID	<mailman.158.1457030287.20602.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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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?

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creating zipfile with symlinks Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 13:37 -0500
  Re: creating zipfile with symlinks crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-04 04:03 -0700
    Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2016-03-04 11:12 +0000
    Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-04 15:56 +0000
      Re: creating zipfile with symlinks crankypuss <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-04 11:50 -0700
        Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 13:31 -0700
          Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-04 20:12 -0600

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