Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> This is a duplicate of issue700858 and issue6818.

It probably would have been better to mention it in issue6818, but IMO, those issues have been inactive long enough that it's reasonable to re-address the issue. zipfile is not an area of expertise for me though, so I can't say if anything substantial has changed for the arguments against it in issue6818 to no longer apply. That's partly why I suggested python-ideas or discuss.python.org.