[issue10631] ZipFile and current directory change

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> So, Martin, are you then arguing that this should in fact be
> considered a bug in ZipFile?  The documentation for the constructor
> says "Open a ZIP file, where file can be either a path to a file (a
> string) or a file-like object."  Reading that I would certainly
> expect it to accept a relative path, and for that path to be relative
> to the CWD at the time I called ZipFile, not at the time I called
> extractall.

You have a point here. So I now think that this should be changed.

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