[issue4710] [PATCH] zipfile.ZipFile does not extract directories properly

Gabriel Genellina report at bugs.python.org
Sat Dec 27 06:33:20 CET 2008


Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> added the comment:

Your usage of os.sep is incorrect, both when reading and writing 
directories.

Zip files are (more-or-less) platform independent. The specification 
*requires* forward slashes in paths [1], and the zipfile module 
already writes them that way. Checking for os.sep is wrong - at least 
on Windows. 

I've never encountered malformed entries of that kind (like "directory
\" instead of "directory/") but if you want to suport such beasts, 
check for "/" *and* os.sep explicitely.

[1] See APPNOTE.TXT (there is a link near the top of zipfile.py)

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