[issue34606] Unable to read zip file with extra

2019-06-25 Thread Andreas Gäer
Andreas Gäer added the comment: I'm a little bit puzzled that this bug is closed as "not a bug" despite the fact that all versions of python allow the user to create "invalid" ZIP files and all version up to 3.7 are able to read those "invalid" files. Cu

[issue13702] relative symlinks in tarfile.extract broken (windows)

2014-05-06 Thread Andreas Gäer
Andreas Gäer added the comment: Is there any progress to the question if the problem should be fixed in os.symlink or in tarfile? Because this currently seems to break installing source packages that contain symlinks with pip under Windows. Try: pip install networkx==1.8.1 for example