Zip files created by git archive result in a SyntaxError (due to comment?)

[Lekensteyn]

BPO	22322
Nosy	@bitdancer, @Lekensteyn
Superseder	bpo-5950: Make zipimport work with zipfile containing comments

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closed_at = <Date 2014-09-01.16:26:14.359>
created_at = <Date 2014-09-01.15:11:58.076>
labels = ['extension-modules', 'type-bug']
title = 'Zip files created by `git archive` result in a SyntaxError (due to comment?)'
updated_at = <Date 2014-09-01.16:26:14.357>
user = 'https://github.com/Lekensteyn'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue22322'
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[Lekensteyn]

Files created by git archive are not understood by the Python interpreter. This could be caused by the additional comment (for the commit hash) in the file.

echo 'print(1)' > __main__.py
git init && git add __main__.py && git commit -m init
git archive --format=zip HEAD > y.zip
python y.zip

Packing it with zip x.zip __main__.py && python x.zip works.

[bitdancer]

You are correct. zipimport does not support zip files with comments. There is already an open issue (bpo-5950) for adding support for this.