Merge fix for issue #11501

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
index 6dd0445..c06eba3 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ import os
 from warnings import warn
 import sys
 
+try:
+    import zipfile
+except ImportError:
+    zipfile = None
+
+
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsExecError
 from distutils.spawn import spawn
 from distutils.dir_util import mkpath
@@ -74,11 +80,6 @@ def make_zipfile(base_name, base_dir, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     available, raises DistutilsExecError.  Returns the name of the output zip
     file.
     """
-    try:
-        import zipfile
-    except ImportError:
-        zipfile = None
-
     zip_filename = base_name + ".zip"
     mkpath(os.path.dirname(zip_filename), dry_run=dry_run)
 
@@ -105,8 +106,12 @@ def make_zipfile(base_name, base_dir, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
                  zip_filename, base_dir)
 
         if not dry_run:
-            zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, "w",
-                                  compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
+            try:
+                zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, "w",
+                                      compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
+            except RuntimeError:
+                zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_filename, "w",
+                                      compression=zipfile.ZIP_STORED)
 
             for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base_dir):
                 for name in filenames: