archiving symlinks with python zipfile

Question

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 th

Answer 1

I have defined the following method in a Zip support class

def add_symlink(self, link, target, permissions=0o777):
    self.log('Adding a symlink: {} => {}'.format(link, target))
    permissions |= 0xA000

    zi = zipfile.ZipInfo(link)
    zi.create_system = 3
    zi.external_attr = permissions << 16
    self.zip.writestr(zi, target)