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Jim
Hello,

I'm trying to unzip archives that have soft links in them (that is,
were created on unix with a -y option). I'm not finding that ZipFile
will do that. That I can see, it creates the link file, and that file
has the right contents, but it is not a soft link in the directory
structure. (I've both tested it interactively and looked at the
zipfile.py source, and didn't see the behaviour in either place.)

If I have that wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it if some kind soul could
correct me.

If it does not do soft links, I wonder if someone has tried patching
it? That I can see the specs are on the web, at
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/d...-iz-latest.zip , so I
wondered if someone who is a better programmer than I (not hard!) had
already done it. The alternative is to shell out, which happens to be
quite involved in the context that I am using (e.g., what if the soft
link is to '/bin/ls' ?).

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

Dec 7 '05 #1
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