[issue24621] zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

> Would it help to remove the offending bytes and then feed the bytes-object to ZipFile?

Yes, it will.

import zipfile, struct, io
with open('not_working.zip', 'rb') as f:
    data = f.read()

i = data.rindex(b'PK\5\6') + 22
i += struct.unpack('<H', data[i-2: i])[0]
if data[i:].strip(b'\0') == b'':
    data = data[:i]

zf = zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(data))

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