ZipFile and timestamps

[Manfred Lotz]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:41:10 +0000
MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2020-03-18 20:38, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > I unzip a zip file like follows which works fine.
> > 
> >   with ZipFile(zip_file, 'r') as zip:
> >          zip.extractall(tmp_dir)
> > 
> > The only caveat is that the unpacked files and dirs do have a
> > current timestamp i.e. the timestamps of the files are not
> > preserved.
> > 
> > Is there a way to tell ZipFile to preserve timestamps when
> > unpacking a zip archive?
> >   
> You might have to iterate over the contents yourself and set the 
> modification times.

Oops, if this is required then I better change my code to invoke unzip.

Thanks,
Manfred