[Python-ideas] Re: Enhancing Zipapp

Christopher Barker pythonchb at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 11:02:32 EST 2020


On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:49 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <
arj.python at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have a look at this write up about the horror that is zip file name
>> handling.
>>
>> https://marcosc.com/2008/12/zip-files-and-encoding-i-hate-you/
>>
>> This has been a pain point at work.
>>
>
I'm pretty sure this is a non-issue for this use-case. If you need to open
sip files created by arbitrary other systems, or create zip files that can
be opened by arbitrary other systems, then it's a big mess. But that isn't
the case here.

-CHB


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