On Jan 9, 3:16 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > The full signature of ZipFile is: > > ZipFile(file, mode="r", compression=ZIP_STORED, allowZip64=True) > > Try passing compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED and/or allowZip64=False and > see if that makes any difference.
Those arguments didn't make a difference in my case. > The zip format does support alternative compression methods, it's > possible that this particular file uses a different sort of compression > which Python doesn't deal with. > > > What would cause a zip file to not have a table of contents? > > What makes you think it doesn't have one? Because when I search for the "file is not a zip file" error in zipfile.py, there is a function that checks for a table of contents. Tho it looks like there are other ideas in this thread about what might cause that error... I'll keep reading... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
