New submission from Ryan Kelly <r...@rfk.id.au>: If you open a ZipFile in append mode and modify the comment to be shorter than what was originally there, the file will become corrupted. Truncated data from the original comment is left "dangling" at the end of the zipfile.
A much more trivial bug discovered while writing tests for this: setting the "comment" attribute doesn't mark the zipfile as modified, so the change won't be written out unless you also modify one of the archive files. The attached patch fixes (and adds tests for) these issues. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: zipfile_appendmode_comment.patch keywords: patch messages: 110149 nosy: rfk priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: zipfile: truncating comment can corrupt the zipfile type: performance versions: Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17974/zipfile_appendmode_comment.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9239> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com