Dave Sawyer added the comment:

The zipfile way to delete or rename would be to just change the index. It 
really doesn't want to be re-written as it is designed to span disks. Many old 
versions of files can be scattered within the zip. In addition self-extracting 
zip files will have executable code in the front of the zip. To make a zip 
smaller, it's desirable to have a filter function. There were points brought up 
about zip with overlapping data blocks (and you could envision saving space by 
having many identical files share the same compressed block... but this is not 
legal zip. A file info header block must precede EACH individual file data 
block. This is brought home by there being only a length field in the info 
header.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39061/mywork.patch

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