William Mallard added the comment:
See attached. The patch updates ZipFile, its documentation, and its unit tests.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29074/zipfile_zip64_by_default.patch
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29075/zipfile_zip64_by_default.patch
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http://bugs.python.org/issue17201
William Mallard added the comment:
Ok, here's a patch that makes zip64 the default in make_archive() when
format='zip'.
I also agree that ZipFile should set allowZip64=True by default. (PKZIP has
supported zip64 since 2001!)
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William Mallard added the comment:
Documentation added. See attached.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29063/shutil_zip64_by_default.patch
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http://bugs.python.org/issue17189
William Mallard added the comment:
Enabling ZIP64 seems like a reasonable default.
The documentation justifies the current 32-bit default with outdated
information:
ZIP64 extensions are disabled by default because the default 'zip' and 'unzip'
commands on Unix (the InfoZIP utilities) don't
New submission from William Mallard:
This patch enables creation of 64-bit zip files via make_archive().
make_archive uses ZipFile to create zip files. ZipFile already supports
creation of 64-bit archives via a kwarg, but make_archive hard-codes it to
32-bit. This patch exposes the option
