"""Demonstration of zipfile.ZipFile.close bug.""" import io from zipfile import ZipFile bytes_io = io.BytesIO() zip_file = ZipFile(bytes_io, mode="w") bytes_io.close() zip_file.close() """ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jeff/sandbox/src/python3.7/build/master/../../poc/zipfile_close_bug.py", line 9, in zip_file.close() File "/Users/jeff/sandbox/src/python3.7/cpython/Lib/zipfile.py", line 1829, in close self.fp.seek(self.start_dir) ValueError: I/O operation on closed file. """