[New-bugs-announce] [issue32170] Contrary to documentation, ZipFile.extract does not extract timestamps or other metadata

[Malcolm Smith]

New submission from Malcolm Smith <malcolm.smith at gmail.com>:

The documentation explicitly says "file information is extracted as accurately as possible". But the `zipfile` module doesn't actually extract any metadata at all. I assume this text was copied and pasted from the `tarfile` module, which does implement this.

Fixing the code is preferred to fixing the documentation.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 307255
nosy: Malcolm Smith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Contrary to documentation, ZipFile.extract does not extract timestamps or other metadata
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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