[issue10955] Possible regression with stdlib in zipfile

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Ronald Oussoren and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc: do you think that it is an acceptable limitation to only accept ASCII filenames in python32.zip? (not in all ZIP files, just in the file loaded at startup)

All possible solutions:

 a) Only accept ASCII filenames in python32.zip
 b) Only accept ZIP archive using UTF-8 filenames (unicode flag set for all files in the archive). On Linux, I don't know how to create such archive. I suppose that most ZIP archivers prefer the legacy format (unicode flag unset). But few people produce python32.zip files, maybe only py2exe / pyfreeze developers.
 c) Add encodings/cp437.py to your python3.2/ directory (outside the ZIP file), which can be a problem :-/
 d) Implement cp437 in C

I dislike (c) and (d), but I cannot say if (a) or (b) is better.

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