Bugs item #878120, was opened at 2004-01-16 10:32 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by pylucid You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=878120&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extension Modules Group: Python 2.3 Status: Deleted Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simon Harrison (ssmmhh) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Zipfile archive name can't be unicode Initial Comment: In Python 2.3.2, The following code: import zipfile z = zipfile.ZipFile( "file.zip", "w" ) z.write( "file.txt", u"file.txt" ) z.close() Results in this exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\dev\ziptest.py", line 8, in ? z.write( "file.txt", u"file.txt" ) File "D:\Python23\lib\zipfile.py", line 412, in write self.fp.write(zinfo.FileHeader()) File "D:\Python23\lib\zipfile.py", line 166, in FileHeader return header + self.filename + self.extra UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) The code could be fixed in zipfile.py. Something along the lines of: return header + self.filename.encode("utf-8") + self.extra On Windows ideally the code should figure out the current locale's codepage and use that to encode the filename into the correct multibyte sequence. The example above is pretty easy to spot, but if the arcname is coming from a COM property (my case) it takes a while to figure out why zipfile is crashing! This is bug 705295 resubmitted: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=105470&aid=705295&group_id=5470 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jens Diemer (pylucid) Date: 2006-04-06 12:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1330780 Hm! Which occurs to me straight: Shouldn't Python make the conversion automaticly? If the arcname is type unicode, Python should convert it to cp437. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-01-18 15:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 I don't know who the info-zip walker is, but atleast Winzip will interpret all file names as CP437. This becomes obvious when you try to unzip a file name with non-ASCII characters on Windows NT: the resulting Unicode file names are generated as-if the encoding used is code page 437. I believe this is the same in pkware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Simon Harrison (ssmmhh) Date: 2004-01-18 12:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=775521 I would be happy to just see an exception indicating that the supplied filename mustn't be unicode, to save people time figuring this one out in the future. I can supply a patch but I thought this was too trivial for that. You wrote: >Names in zip files are stored in code page 437 Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the info-zip directory walker just stick whatever it enumerates into the name field? I don't quite understand what you mean by 'no support'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-01-18 00:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Using UTF-8 is incorrect. Names in zip files are stored in code page 437. There is no support for file names outside this character set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=878120&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com