diff --git a/src/shared/zip-entry-listing.ts b/src/shared/zip-entry-listing.ts
index 730713c84..299ca4452 100644
--- a/src/shared/zip-entry-listing.ts
+++ b/src/shared/zip-entry-listing.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { spawn } from "bun"
+import { spawn, spawnSync } from "bun"
 
 import type { ArchiveEntry } from "./archive-entry-validator"
 
@@ -48,6 +48,56 @@ export async function listZipEntriesWithTar(archivePath: string): Promise<Archiv
 		.filter((entry): entry is ArchiveEntry => entry !== null)
 }
 
+export function isPythonZipListingAvailable(): boolean {
+	const proc = spawnSync(["python3", "--version"], {
+		stdout: "ignore",
+		stderr: "ignore",
+	})
+
+	return proc.exitCode === 0
+}
+
+export async function listZipEntriesWithPython(archivePath: string): Promise<ArchiveEntry[]> {
+	const script = [
+		"import json, stat, sys, zipfile",
+		"entries = []",
+		"with zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[1], 'r') as archive:",
+		"    for info in archive.infolist():",
+		"        mode = (info.external_attr >> 16) & 0xFFFF",
+		"        if stat.S_ISLNK(mode):",
+		"            entry_type = 'symlink'",
+		"            link_path = archive.read(info).decode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')",
+		"        elif info.filename.endswith('/'):",
+		"            entry_type = 'directory'",
+		"            link_path = None",
+		"        else:",
+		"            entry_type = 'file'",
+		"            link_path = None",
+		"        entry = {'path': info.filename, 'type': entry_type}",
+		"        if link_path is not None:",
+		"            entry['linkPath'] = link_path",
+		"        entries.append(entry)",
+		"print(json.dumps(entries))",
+	].join("\n")
+
+	const proc = spawn(["python3", "-c", script, archivePath], {
+		stdout: "pipe",
+		stderr: "pipe",
+	})
+
+	const [exitCode, stdout, stderr] = await Promise.all([
+		proc.exited,
+		new Response(proc.stdout).text(),
+		new Response(proc.stderr).text(),
+	])
+
+	if (exitCode !== 0) {
+		throw new Error(`zip entry listing failed (exit ${exitCode}): ${stderr}`)
+	}
+
+	return JSON.parse(stdout) as ArchiveEntry[]
+}
+
 export async function listZipEntriesWithPowerShell(
 	archivePath: string,
 	escapePowerShellPath: (path: string) => string,
diff --git a/src/shared/zip-extractor.ts b/src/shared/zip-extractor.ts
index 58da48ebf..8bb77b42c 100644
--- a/src/shared/zip-extractor.ts
+++ b/src/shared/zip-extractor.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ import { spawn, spawnSync } from "bun"
 import { release } from "os"
 
 import { validateArchiveEntries } from "./archive-entry-validator"
-import { listZipEntriesWithPowerShell, listZipEntriesWithTar } from "./zip-entry-listing"
+import {
+  isPythonZipListingAvailable,
+  listZipEntriesWithPowerShell,
+  listZipEntriesWithPython,
+  listZipEntriesWithTar,
+} from "./zip-entry-listing"
 
 const WINDOWS_BUILD_WITH_TAR = 17134
 
@@ -98,5 +103,9 @@ async function listZipEntries(archivePath: string) {
     return listZipEntriesWithPowerShell(archivePath, escapePowerShellPath, extractor)
   }
 
+  if (isPythonZipListingAvailable()) {
+    return listZipEntriesWithPython(archivePath)
+  }
+
   return listZipEntriesWithTar(archivePath)
 }