[New-bugs-announce] [issue37601] shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives

[Kevin Teague]

New submission from Kevin Teague <kevin.t.waterbear.cloud at gmail.com>:

Zip archives created with shutil.make_archive will not follow symlinks.

The shutil._make_zipfile uses os.walk:

    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_dir)

os.walk has the followlinks parameter:

    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_dir, followlinks=True)

Setting followlinks to True will include symlinks in a zip archive.

Could a followlinks parameter be added to shutil.make_archive?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 347996
nosy: Kevin Teague
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives
versions: Python 3.7

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