STINNER Victor added the comment: Oh, it seems like zipfile is not affected by the issue, only tarfile. The documentation is correct: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/zipfile.html#zipfile.ZipFile.extract
You can test using attached test2.zip. haypo@selma$ python3 -m zipfile -l ~/test2.zip File Name Modified Size /home/haypo/test 2017-03-10 17:29:06 5 haypo@selma$ cd $HOME haypo@selma$ rm -rf z/ haypo@selma$ mkdir z haypo@selma$ cd z haypo@selma$ python3 -m zipfile -e ~/test2.zip . haypo@selma$ find . ./home ./home/haypo ./home/haypo/test haypo@selma$ cat ~/test cat: /home/haypo/test: No such file or directory ---------- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file46716/test2.zip _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29789> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com