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  r68661 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-17 17:40:17 +0100 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 5 lines

  #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
  with other applications.

  Reviewed by Martin, will backport to 2.6 and 3.0
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 Library
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+- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
+  opened with other applications.
+
 - Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
   a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable.  They now
   correctly return an empty iterator.