[docs] [issue20907] behavioral differences between shutil.unpack_archive and ZipFile.extractall

R. David Murray report at bugs.python.org
Thu Mar 20 13:45:25 CET 2014


R. David Murray added the comment:

Note that unix unzip does exactly the same thing as zipfile extractall (except that it does issue warnings), and I believe this is considered "best practice" these days for extraction tools: strip out absolute/relative path components and extract to the destination directory.

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