[Python-Dev] request for review: patch 1446489 (zip64 extensions in zipfile)

[Aahz]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
> There are two backward incompatbile changes, both minor. First of all  
> ZipInfo will lose the file_offset attribute because calculating it  
> when opening a zipfile is very expensive (it basically requires a  
> full scan of the zipfile). This should be harmless, I couldn't come  
> up with a usecase other then reimplementing the read method outside  
> of zipfile. 

Not knowing anything about this, why not implement file_offset as a
property?
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