[issue6090] zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980

Craig McQueen added the comment: One ongoing weakness I see with this situation is that it's difficult to code a suitable work-around if a user wants to zip files that have a date < 1980 (e.g. to zip it with a datestamp of 1-Jan-1980). https://stackoverflow.com/q/45703747/60075 I am trying to

[issue6090] zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed in all active branches. Thanks for the patch, Petri. Mark, for this issue, raising ValueError from zipfile was seemingly a right thing to do, the previous error from struct for a side effect of sending a value lower than 1980. -- nosy: +orsen

[issue6090] zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 649ac338203f by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Fix closes Issue6090 - Raise a ValueError, instead of failing with unrelated http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/649ac338203f New changeset 12f3e86e9041 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.2': 3.2 - Fix clo

[issue6090] zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980

Changes by Petri Lehtinen : -- title: zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a with timestamp before 1980 -> zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a file with timestamp before 1980 ___ Python tracker ___