On Apr 25, 2005, at 7:53 AM, Charles Hartman wrote:
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/>.
-- and allow *deleting* a file from a zipfile. As far as I can tell, you now can't (except by rewriting everything but that to a new zipfile and renaming). Somewhere I saw a patch request for this, but it was languishing, a year or more old. Or am I just totally missing something?
No, you're not missing anything. Deleting is hard, I guess. Either you'd have to shuffle the zip file around to reclaim the space, or just leave that spot alone and just remove its entry in the central directory. You'd probably want to look at what other software does to decide which approach to use (by default?). I don't see any markers in the format that would otherwise let you say "this file was deleted".
-bob
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