zlib OverflowError: 'size does not fit in an int'

[Larry Martell]

Trying to zip a large file is failing with OverflowError: 'size does
not fit in an int'. Googling I found this:

https://bugs.python.org/issue23306

and this:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2192edcfea02

which seems to make me think this was fixed this was fixed on Jul 23 2016.

I am running CentOS 7 and I have python version:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Sep 15 2016, 22:37:39)

Which I guess does not have this fix. How can I get a version with
that fix (that doesn't break CentOS)