Re: creating zipfile with symlinks

From	Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: creating zipfile with symlinks
Date	2016-03-04 21:45 -0700
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On 03/04/2016 05:18 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> Unfortunately very slow - around 8 minutes to zip a 7GB dir using the
> command line zip vs. 13 seconds with the python zipfile module.

And likely Python's zipfile is just giving up and storing the file
without compression.  What does unzip -v say about the compression on
the zip file you made with zipfile.

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Re: creating zipfile with symlinks Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 21:45 -0700

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