How do I set permissions (attributes) on a file in a ZIP file using Python's zipfile module?

This seems to work (thanks Evan, putting it here so the line is in context):

buffer = "path/filename.zip"  # zip filename to write (or file-like object)
name = "folder/data.txt"      # name of file inside zip 
bytes = "blah blah blah"      # contents of file inside zip

zip = zipfile.ZipFile(buffer, "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
info = zipfile.ZipInfo(name)
info.external_attr = 0777 << 16L # give full access to included file
zip.writestr(info, bytes)
zip.close()

I'd still like to see something that documents this... An additional resource I found was a note on the Zip file format: http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT

Look at this: Set permissions on a compressed file in python

I'm not entirely sure if that's what you want, but it seems to be.

The key line appears to be:

zi.external_attr = 0777 << 16L

It looks like it sets the permissions to 0777 there.

The earlier answers did not work for me (on OS X 10.12). I found that as well as the executable flags (octal 755), I also need to set the "regular file" flag (octal 100000). I found this mentioned here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14705/the-zip-formats-external-file-attribute

A complete example:

zipname = "test.zip"
filename = "test-executable"

zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

f = open(filename, 'r')
bytes = f.read()
f.close()

info = zipfile.ZipInfo(filename)
info.date_time = time.localtime()
info.external_attr = 0100755 << 16L

zip.writestr(info, bytes, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

zip.close()

A complete example of my specific usecase, creating a zip of a .app so that everything in the folder Contents/MacOS/ is executable: https://gist.github.com/Draknek/3ce889860cea4f59838386a79cc11a85

You can extend the ZipFile class to change the default file permission:

from zipfile import ZipFile, ZipInfo
import time

class PermissiveZipFile(ZipFile):
    def writestr(self, zinfo_or_arcname, data, compress_type=None):
        if not isinstance(zinfo_or_arcname, ZipInfo):
            zinfo = ZipInfo(filename=zinfo_or_arcname,
                            date_time=time.localtime(time.time())[:6])

            zinfo.compress_type = self.compression
            if zinfo.filename[-1] == '/':
                zinfo.external_attr = 0o40775 << 16   # drwxrwxr-x
                zinfo.external_attr |= 0x10           # MS-DOS directory flag
            else:
                zinfo.external_attr = 0o664 << 16     # ?rw-rw-r--
        else:
            zinfo = zinfo_or_arcname

        super(PermissiveZipFile, self).writestr(zinfo, data, compress_type)

This example changes the default file permission to 664 and keeps 775 for directories.

Related code:

• ZipFile.writestr, Python 2.7
• ZipFile.writestr, Python 3.6

To set permissions (Unix attributes) on a file in a ZIP file using Python's zipfile module, pass the attributes as bits 16-31 of the external_attr of ZipInfo.

The Python zipfile module accepts the 16-bit "Mode" field (that stores st_mode field from struct stat, containing user/group/other permissions, setuid/setgid and symlink info, etc) of the ASi extra block for Unix in the external_attr bits above mentioned.

You may also import the Python's "stat" module to get the mode constant definitions.

You may also set 3 in create_system to specify the operating system which created the ZIP archive: 3 = Unix; 0 = Windows.

Here is an example:

#!/usr/bin/python

import stat
import zipfile

def create_zip_with_symlink(output_zip_filename, link_source, link_target):
    zipInfo  = zipfile.ZipInfo(link_source)
    zipInfo.create_system = 3 
    unix_st_mode = stat.S_IFLNK | stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IRGRP | stat.S_IWGRP | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IROTH | stat.S_IWOTH | stat.S_IXOTH
    zipInfo.external_attr = unix_st_mode << 16 
    zipOut = zipfile.ZipFile(output_zip_filename, 'w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
    zipOut.writestr(zipInfo, link_target)
    zipOut.close()

create_zip_with_symlink('cpuinfo.zip', 'cpuinfo.txt', '/proc/cpuinfo')

Also look at what Python's zipfile module does:

def write(self, filename, arcname=None, compress_type=None):
    ...
    st = os.stat(filename)
    ...
    zinfo = ZipInfo(arcname, date_time)
    zinfo.external_attr = (st[0] & 0xFFFF) << 16L      # Unix attributes
    ...

```

When you do it like this, does it work alright?

zf = zipfile.ZipFile("something.zip")
for name in zf.namelist():
    f = open(name, 'wb')
    f.write(self.read(name))
    f.close()

If not, I'd suggest throwing in an os.chmod in the for loop with 0777 permissions like this:

zf = zipfile.ZipFile("something.zip")
for name in zf.namelist():
    f = open(name, 'wb')
    f.write(self.read(name))
    f.close()
    os.chmod(name, 0777)