Message 160684 - Python tracker

Message160684

Author	meador.inge
Recipients	alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, loewis, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, pleed, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, ubershmekel
Date	2012-05-15.05:24:04
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Message-id	<1337059445.61.0.940285409745.issue14315@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I would still like to see the zipfile module to be able to detect > ill-formed zipfiles - certainly not by default. Agreed. We already do produce some informational messages via the documented 'ZipFile.debug' attribute. Just checking that flag and producing a message to stdout like we do in other cases is one option. Another, as you suggested already, is to provide a strict flag that indicates an exception should be thrown upon encountering an ill-formed file. I like the idea of reusing what we already have. Although, when it fails, it doesn't fail loudly.

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> I would still like to see the zipfile module to be able to detect 
> ill-formed zipfiles - certainly not by default.

Agreed.  We already do produce some informational messages via the 
documented 'ZipFile.debug' attribute.  Just checking that flag and
producing a message to stdout like we do in other cases is one option.
Another, as you suggested already, is to provide a strict flag
that indicates an exception should be thrown upon encountering an 
ill-formed file.

I like the idea of reusing what we already have.  Although, when it 
fails, it doesn't fail loudly.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-05-15 05:24:05	meador.inge	set	recipients: + meador.inge, loewis, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, ubershmekel, serhiy.storchaka, pleed
2012-05-15 05:24:05	meador.inge	set	messageid: <1337059445.61.0.940285409745.issue14315@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2012-05-15 05:24:04	meador.inge	create