Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
This looks like a reasonable addition to me. Other APIs in shutil have
follow_symlinks parameter.
➜ /tmp ls -al sym
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 102 Jul 16 15:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 58 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 1972 Jul 16 15:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 0 Jul 16 15:05 a
➜ /tmp ls -al foo
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 5 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 170 Jul 16 15:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 58 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 1972 Jul 16 15:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 0 Jul 16 15:00 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 0 Jul 16 15:00 b
lrwxr-xr-x 1 karthikeyansingaravelan staff 8 Jul 16 15:04 c -> /tmp/sym
# Using zip in Mac and zipfile module
➜ /tmp python3 -m zipfile -c cmd.zip foo/*
➜ /tmp python3 -m zipfile -l cmd.zip
File Name Modified Size
a 2019-07-16 15:00:04 0
b 2019-07-16 15:00:10 0
c/ 2019-07-16 15:52:06 0
c/a 2019-07-16 15:05:46 0
# Using make_archive
➜ /tmp python3 -c "import shutil; shutil.make_archive('make_archive', 'zip',
'foo')"
➜ /tmp python3 -m zipfile -l make_archive.zip
File Name Modified Size
c/ 2019-07-16 15:52:06 0
a 2019-07-16 15:00:04 0
b 2019-07-16 15:00:10 0
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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka, xtreak
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