I have opened a new bug and patch that should fix this issue <http://python.org/sf/1189216>. This is a backport candidate to 2.4.2 and 2.3.6 (if that ever happens).
On a related note, if anyone else has a bunch of really big and ostensibly broken zip archives created by dumb versions of the zipfile module, I have written a script that can rebuild the central directory in-place. Ping me off-list if you're interested and I'll clean it up.
Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest specifications <http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/>.
Additionally, it'd also be useful if someone were to include support for Apple's "extensions" to the zip format (the __MACOSX folder and its contents) that show up when BOM (private framework) is used to create archives (i.e. Finder in Mac OS X 10.3+). I'm not sure if these are documented anywhere, but I can help with reverse engineering if someone is interested in writing the code.
On that note, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is supposed to have new APIs (or changes to existing APIs?) to facilitate resource fork preservation, ACLs, and Spotlight hooks in tar, cp, mv, etc. Someone should spend some time looking at the Darwin 8 sources for these tools (when they're publicly available in the next few weeks) to see what would need to be done in Python to support them in the standard library (the os, tarfile, etc. modules).
-bob
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