[New-bugs-announce] [issue38635] Simplify decoding the ZIP64 extra field and make it tolerant to extra data

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com>:

The decoding code can be much shorter and efficient.

Also, the Info-ZIP unzip utility is tolerant to extra bytes. We can be too.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 355676
nosy: serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Simplify decoding the ZIP64 extra field and make it tolerant to extra data
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9

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