ZipFile and timestamps
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Mar 18 17:41:10 EDT 2020
On 2020-03-18 20:38, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> I unzip a zip file like follows which works fine.
>
> with ZipFile(zip_file, 'r') as zip:
> zip.extractall(tmp_dir)
>
> The only caveat is that the unpacked files and dirs do have a current
> timestamp i.e. the timestamps of the files are not preserved.
>
> Is there a way to tell ZipFile to preserve timestamps when unpacking a
> zip archive?
>
You might have to iterate over the contents yourself and set the
modification times.
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