On a WinZip AES-256 encrypted zip, zipfile.extractall raises a RuntimeError for "Bad password for file" when given the correct password. Command line example below:

Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) 
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
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>>> from zipfile import ZipFile
>>> zip = ZipFile("example.zip", "r")
>>> zip.extractall(".", pwd="cat")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 935, in extractall
    self.extract(zipinfo, path, pwd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 923, in extract
    return self._extract_member(member, path, pwd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 963, in _extract_member
    source = self.open(member, pwd=pwd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/zipfile.py", line 898, in open
    raise RuntimeError("Bad password for file", name)
RuntimeError: ('Bad password for file', <zipfile.ZipInfo object at 0xb739e26c>)
>>>