[Distutils] PEP: Improving Python ZIP Application Support

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Mar 31 23:44:57 CEST 2013


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:43 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> In practice, there are a couple of wrinkles.  The magic terminator
> string, at least for the Windows and Linux boxes I've tested so far,
> is '\n#\x1a\n\x00\n'.  But there are more platforms and builds I
> *haven't* tested on than those I have.

Oops.  That's supposed to be '\n\x00\n#\x00\x04\x1a' -- the other
string was from an earlier series of tests, before I realized that an
x04 in the zipfile itself was doing part of the work for me.


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