[issue36914] zipimport does not load ZIP files produced by GitHub

[Vadim Kantorov]

New submission from Vadim Kantorov <vadimkantorov at gmail.com>:

Python does not like source code zip-files produced by GitHub (zipimporting source from GitHub can be useful in some ad-hoc scripting scenarios e.g. I wanted to use it in Mozilla Iodide context)

wget https://github.com/python/black/archive/master.zip
python3.7 -m 'import zipimport; zipimport.zipimporter("master.zip")'
# zipimport.ZipImportError: not a Zip file: 'master.zip'

unzip master.zip
zip -r master2.zip black-master
python3.7 -m 'import zipimport; zipimport.zipimporter("master2.zip")'
# OK

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 342439
nosy: Vadim Kantorov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: zipimport does not load ZIP files produced by GitHub
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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