zipfile cant handle some type of zip data?

Question

I came up over this problem while trying to decompress a zip file.

-- zipfile.is_zipfile(my_file) always returns False, even though the UNIX command unz

Answer 1

Run into the same issue on my files and was able to solve it. I'm not sure how they were generated, like in the above example. They all had trailing data in the end ignored by both Windows by 7z and failing python's zipfile.

This is the code to solve the issue:

def fixBadZipfile(zipFile):  
     f = open(zipFile, 'r+b')  
     data = f.read()  
     pos = data.find('\x50\x4b\x05\x06') # End of central directory signature  
     if (pos > 0):  
         self._log("Truncating file at location " + str(pos + 22) + ".")  
         f.seek(pos + 22)   # size of 'ZIP end of central directory record' 
         f.truncate()  
         f.close()  
     else:  
         # raise error, file is truncated