[New-bugs-announce] [issue24982] shutil.make_archive doesn't archive empty directories

[Eugene Kolo]

New submission from Eugene Kolo:

Zip file is sometimes known to only contain files and the paths to them, but it can also have have empty folders, they are zero length files with a flag set.

make_archive just ignores empty directories, I propose that there should either be a flag, or it should include empty directories by default.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 249522
nosy: eugenek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil.make_archive doesn't archive empty directories
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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