Petri Lehtinen <pe...@digip.org> added the comment: Retitled to reflect that the error message should be enhanced.
Attached a patch for 2.7 that raises ValueError for timestamps before 1980, documents that 1980 or later is required, and adds some tests. ---------- keywords: +needs review, patch nosy: +petri.lehtinen stage: test needed -> patch review title: zipfile DeprecationWarning Python in 2.6, failure in 2.7 -> zipfile: Bad error message when zipping a with timestamp before 1980 versions: -Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22595/zipfile_timestamps_before_1980.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6090> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com