Merge branch 'shutil-default-zipfile-behaviour' of https://github.com/cowgoesmoo69/cpython into shutil-default-zipfile-behaviour

cowgoesmoo69 · cowgoesmoo69 · commit a5527088197c · 2025-10-09T20:55:30.000+01:00
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+The default behaviour of shutil.make_archive(), in relation to handling of symbolic links when creating zip files, now matches the default behaviour of command-line zip utilities on Linux/UNIX/Windows: symbolic links to both files and directories are resolved to their targets and included in the zip file.

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