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patch 1446489 (zip64 extensions in zipfile)

[Python-Dev] request for review: patch 1446489 (zip64 extensions in zipfile) [Python-Dev] request for review: patch 1446489 (zip64 extensions in zipfile)Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Tue Jun 13 15:59:05 CEST 2006
On 13-jun-2006, at 15:08, Aahz wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> There are two backward incompatbile changes, both minor. First of all
>> ZipInfo will lose the file_offset attribute because calculating it
>> when opening a zipfile is very expensive (it basically requires a
>> full scan of the zipfile). This should be harmless, I couldn't come
>> up with a usecase other then reimplementing the read method outside
>> of zipfile.
>
> Not knowing anything about this, why not implement file_offset as a
> property?

That is possible but would introduce a link from ZipInfo instances to  
Zipfile instances and would therefore introduce a cycle. As Zipfile  
has a __del__ method that's not something I wanted to do.

Ronald

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