Re: [Python-ideas] hook zipfile.ZipExtFile to check secure hash sums

On 29.08.12 19:08, Daniel Holth wrote:

I am checking the sha256 sums of all the files in a zip archive as it is being extracted by overriding ZipExtFile._update_crc, but it is inconvenient.

It would be nice to have a hook, for example the ZipExtFile constructor could be a property of ZipFile and conveniently replaced with a ZipExtFile subclass.

And ZipExtFile is not public, it is implementation detail. You should not use this class directly. In fact, I plan to offer a patch that removes ZipExtFile in 3.4.