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Sept. 19, 2018
7:43 a.m.
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython@gmail.com> added the comment: I think we should just revert this. The zipfile module can handle ZIP files up to 4 GiB without the ZIP64 extensions, but it requires the ZIP64 extensions for creating ZIP files larger than 2 GiB. The ZIP64 extensions is required also for ZIP files with more than 65535 files. ---------- versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue29013> _______________________________________