PyPI bdist_wininst upload failing - comp.lang.python

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Steven Bethard

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More options May 28 2007, 1:19 am

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From: Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:19:03 -0600

Local: Mon, May 28 2007 1:19 am

Subject: Re: PyPI bdist_wininst upload failing

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John Machin wrote:
> On May 27, 4:20 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Steven Bethard wrote:
>>> I just tried to upload new versions of the argparse module to PyPI, but
>>> it seems like I can no longer upload Windows installers:
> [snip]
>> That seems a little weird to me. Are the bdist_wininst exe files really
>> zip files? Or did I just misunderstand what "content" is?

> They are exe files with a zip appended. Try out the above code on your
> file; it may just help you suss out what the problem is.
> E.g.:
>>>> import zipfile
>>>> zipfile.ZipFile('xlrd-0.6.1a4.win32.exe').namelist()
> ['PURELIB/xlrd-0.6.1a4-py2.5.egg-info', 'PURELIB/xlrd/biffh.py',
> ... snip ...
> 'SCRIPTS/xlrdnameAPIdemo.py']

Interesting. Thanks!

>>> zipfile.ZipFile('argparse-0.8.0.win32.exe').namelist()
['.../lib/argparse-0.8.0-py2.5.egg-info', '.../lib/argparse.py']

Interestingly, it looks like none of these are "safe_zipnames" according to:

https://svn.python.org/packages/trunk/pypi/verify_filetype.py

I wonder why that is...

Also, I couldn't get the StringIO code from there to work:

>>> import StringIO
>>> content = open('argparse-0.8.0.win32.exe').read()
>>> t = StringIO.StringIO(content)
>>> t.filename = 'argparse-0.8.0.win32.exe'
>>> z = zipfile.ZipFile(t)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python25\lib\zipfile.py", line 346, in __init__
self._GetContents()
File "C:\Python25\lib\zipfile.py", line 366, in _GetContents
self._RealGetContents()
File "C:\Python25\lib\zipfile.py", line 378, in _RealGetContents
raise BadZipfile, "File is not a zip file"
BadZipfile: File is not a zip file

STeVe

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