New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: When extracting a zip file containing deep hierarchy files, `extractall` throws IOError on Windows - perhaps due to limitation in Windows max path length. Ideally it should be throwing an instance of zipfile.ZipError - so that application can handle it reliably. An IOError can mean a wide range of errors, so it is pointless to catch IOError and ignore it.
To reproduce, run extractall over http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/collective.generic.skel/collective.generic.skel-0.1.0.zip using Python 2.6.6 or Python 2.7 > python -c "import zipfile ; f=zipfile.ZipFile('collective.generic.skel-0.1.0.zip'); f.extractall()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 923, in extractall self.extract(zipinfo, path, pwd) File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 911, in extract return self._extract_member(member, path, pwd) File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 955, in _extract_member target = file(targetpath, "wb") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\apy\\ My Documents\\Downloads\\collective.generic.skel-0.1.0\\src\\collective\\generic \\skel\\skin\\tmpl\\+namespace++ndot++nested_namespace+.+project_name+\\src\\+na mespace+\\+nested_namespace+\\+project_name+\\profiles\\default\\+namespace++ndo t++nested_namespace+.+project_name+_various.txt_tmpl' ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 121376 nosy: srid priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: zipfile: IOError for long directory paths on Windows type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10447> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com