unzip does extract files but zipfile no
works fine with python2.7 but fails with python 3.2.2
tested on solaris 11 express and windows xp

>>> import zipfile
>>> zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip")
<zipfile.ZipFile object at 0x903e50>
>>> z=_
>>> z.namelist
<bound method ZipFile.namelist of <zipfile.ZipFile object at 0x903e50>>
>>> z.namelist()
['19A7B5A4.PKT']
>>> z.read('19A7B5A4.PKT')
b''

This ZIP file uses a compression method unsupported by Python:
>>> z.getinfo('19A7B5A4.PKT').compress_type
6
which corresponds to "Imploded". Only "Stored" and "Deflated" are supported.

Note that previous versions don't work either: they just happen to return the compressed data.

While Amaury's comment is no doubt true, shouldn't z.read raise an exception if it encounters an unsupported compression type?

The requested change is arguably a new feature, but it seems to me that the current behavior is not acceptable and should be changed.

Modified patch adopted in 3.3 (changeset 596b0eaeece8), therefore the current patch only applies to 3.2 and 2.7. If this is a new feature, the issue can be closed.

Returning the compressed data from read() is clearly a bug (IMO), so detecting that and reporting an exception would be a bug fix.

I still like NotImplementedError more than RuntimeError, though.

> I still like NotImplementedError more than RuntimeError, though.

Well. here are patches for Python 3.2 and 2.7 (backported changeset
596b0eaeece8 + part of changeset fccdcd83708a).

The patch is great, can you approve it urgently please?

It is seriously buggy to silently return a bad filestream, and not just throw the exception. I just wasted over a day's productivity due to this. I'm not alone.

I would argue for raising priority to High. This is a bad bug with a simple but urgent fix.

Raising priority won’t give more free time to the module maintainer, or change the planned date for the next release.  Thanks for reviewing the patch however, it is helpful.  Did you apply it and run the test suite?

I visually reviewed the patch, it's fine by me. (Am not set up to compile it.)

When is 2.7.3.x release planned?

Éric, this changes already in 3.3 (changeset 596b0eaeece8 + part of changeset fccdcd83708a).  This two patches only backport the fix to 2.7 and 3.2.

New changeset 8feaa8d04c56 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
#14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression type is unknown.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8feaa8d04c56

New changeset b193a5dc7a58 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
#14313: zipfile now raises NotImplementedError when the compression type is unknown.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b193a5dc7a58

New changeset c2ba10b9d654 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3':
#14313: null merge.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c2ba10b9d654

New changeset 4b866e39d1fb by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#14313: null merge.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4b866e39d1fb

Fixed, thanks for the patches!