[issue10694] zipfile.py end of central directory detection not robust

[Kevin Hendricks]

Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks at sympatico.ca> added the comment:

Been programming on unix/vax and then linux since the mid 80s and on punch cards in the late 70s.  Grew my first beard writing 8080 and Z80 assembler.  All of that was over 30 years ago. 

All I want to do is report a damn bug!

Then I get nudged for a test case (although how to recreate the bug was already described) so I add the two lines to create a test case.  

Then I get nudged for a patch, so I give a patch even though there are many ways to deal with the issue.

Then I get nudged for patches for other branches, then I get nudged for official test_zipfile.py patches.

All of this **before** the damn owner has even bothered to look at it and say if he/she even wants it or if the patch is even correct.

I have my own working code for the epub ebook stuff I am working on so this issue no longer impacts me.

How did I go from a simple bug report to having to build python's latest checkout just to get someone to look at the bug.

You have got to be kidding me!

I am done here,  do what you want with the bug.

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