[issue37601] shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives

Karthikeyan Singaravelan 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

[issue37601] shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives

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[issue37601] shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives

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[issue37601] shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives

New submission from Kevin Teague : 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(b