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Author gregory.p.smith
Recipients alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, gregory.p.smith, loewis, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, pleed, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, ubershmekel, void.sender
Date 2014-05-30.06:59:36
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This was never an enhancement.  zipfile was failing to properly deal with real world data that other zip file tools on the planet were perfectly happy to deal with.  That's a bug.  Fixed.

 Practicality beats purity.
 Be lenient in what you accept.

The zipfile module is not meant to be a zip "standard" validation tool.

The other discussions in this bug about adding actual features such as a "strict" mode flag could be done but should really go in feature requests of their own.  The zipfile module is... not a wonderful body of code (understatement).  Example: It is still quite possible to get non zipfile.BadZipFile exceptions such as struct.error based on various arrangements of input data.
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2014-05-30 06:59:38gregory.p.smithsetrecipients: + gregory.p.smith, loewis, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, ubershmekel, meador.inge, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, pleed, void.sender
2014-05-30 06:59:38gregory.p.smithsetmessageid: <1401433178.08.0.596227633045.issue14315@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-05-30 06:59:37gregory.p.smithlinkissue14315 messages
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