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5 years ago 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?
tirkarthi
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GitHub fields: ```python assignee = None closed_at = None created_at =
labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.9']
title = 'shutil.make_archive does not follow symlinks for zip archives'
updated_at =
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/KevinTeague'
```
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```