John Andersen added the comment:
I ran into this today. Using a wrapper function around _make_zipfile due to
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/d5650a1738fe34f6e1db4af5f4c4edb7cae90a36/Lib/shutil.py#L817-L819
where there is a check for if the format is zip then don't pass owner and
group
Dominic Davis-Foster added the comment:
I have run into this myself and was surprised unpack_archive didn't support
wheels. I would like to see support added, and don't mind doing the work myself.
That said, I can see there being an issue with the number of supported
zip-based formats balloo
New submission from Daniel Chimeno :
While working on project with Python wheels I found myself adding:
import shutil
shutil.register_unpack_format('whl', ['.whl'], shutil._unpack_zipfile)
Since PEP 427 explicitly says wheels are ZIP-format archive.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/
