[Python-Dev] Request for Pronouncement: PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 23.02.15 22:23, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 23.02.15 21:22, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> This could be a completely stupid question, but how does the zip file
>> know where the individual files are?  More to the
>> point, does the index work via relative or absolute offset?  If
>> absolute, wouldn't the index have to be rewritten if the
>> zip portion of the file moves?
>
> Absolute.

Oh, I were wrong. The specification and the are not very clear about this.