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Remove unneeded ZipFile IO #89668
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| BPO | 45505 |
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| Nosy | @data-ux |
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title = 'Remove unneeded ZipFile IO'
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data-ux commentedon Oct 18, 2021
Currently in the ZipFile class implementation, when processing the zip file headers "extra" field, a .read() call is used without using the returned value in any way. This call could be replaced with a .seek() to avoid actually doing the IO.
The change would improve performance in use cases where the fileobject given to ZipFile is backed by high latency IO, eg. HTTP range requests.
gh-89668: Optimize ZipFile file header processing algorithm to avoid …