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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2014-05-30 06:42:47 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2014-05-30 06:42:47 (GMT)
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Fix issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
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Library
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+- Issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
+ directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack
+ error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in
+ the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
+
- Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
- Issue #3015: _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by