Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.

Lib/shutil.py

@@ -680,9 +680,10 @@ def _make_zipfile(base_name, base_dir, verbose=0, dry_run=0, logger=None):
         with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, "w",
                              compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as zf:
             path = os.path.normpath(base_dir)
-            zf.write(path, path)
-            if logger is not None:
-                logger.info("adding '%s'", path)
+            if path != os.curdir:
+                zf.write(path, path)
+                if logger is not None:
+                    logger.info("adding '%s'", path)
             for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_dir):
                 for name in sorted(dirnames):
                     path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(dirpath, name))

Lib/test/test_shutil.py

@@ -1064,6 +1064,19 @@ class TestShutil(unittest.TestCase):
         work_dir = os.path.dirname(tmpdir2)
         rel_base_name = os.path.join(os.path.basename(tmpdir2), 'archive')
 
+        with support.change_cwd(work_dir):
+            base_name = os.path.abspath(rel_base_name)
+            res = make_archive(rel_base_name, 'zip', root_dir)
+
+        self.assertEqual(res, base_name + '.zip')
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(res))
+        self.assertTrue(zipfile.is_zipfile(res))
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(res) as zf:
+            self.assertCountEqual(zf.namelist(),
+                    ['dist/', 'dist/sub/', 'dist/sub2/',
+                     'dist/file1', 'dist/file2', 'dist/sub/file3',
+                     'outer'])
+
         with support.change_cwd(work_dir):
             base_name = os.path.abspath(rel_base_name)
             res = make_archive(rel_base_name, 'zip', root_dir, base_dir)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
+
 - Issue #25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group
   reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in
   the string.  Error message for invalid group reference now includes the