Change the zipimport implementation to accept files containing
arbitrary bytes before the actual zip compatible archive. Zipfiles
containing comments at the end of the file are still not supported.
Add a testcase to test_zipimport, and update NEWS.
This closes sf #775637 and sf #669036.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7ba1218..af56c77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and builtins
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+- It is now possible to import from zipfiles containing additional
+ data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a
+ comment at the end are still unsupported.
+
Extension modules
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