Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Serhiy: can you please provide a unit test? The OP's test case is unsuitable 
because of both size and copyright.

As for the actual issue: the extra data (type 0xcafe) is apparently added by 
jar tools to make the jar file executable:

http://www.androidadb.com/source/commons-compress-1.1-src/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/zip/JarMarker.java.html

ISTM that the extra 0 byte is in clear violation of the ZIP specification, 
which says that there always be type+length headers, followed by length data. 
So if the length is 0, there ought not to be any data. I don't buy the 
"padding" argument, since a) the spec is silent on any padding, and b) for 
alignment reasons, it's not plausible to add any padding, since it is aligned 
fine without this padding, and unaligned with the padding.

I can sympathize with the desire to accept the zipfile, anyway (i.e. despite it 
being broken). At the same time, I also think that Python should not let errors 
pass silently.

So as a way out, I propose that the ZipFile class gains a "strict" attribute, 
indicating whether "acceptable" violations of the spec are ignored or reported 
as exceptions.

So -1 on the patch as it stands (but thanks for the analysis).

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