The only way I came up for deleting a file from a zipfile was to create a temporary zipfile without the file to be deleted and then rename it to the original filename. In python 2.4 the ZipInfo class had an attribute file_offset, so it was possible to create a second zip file and copy the data to other file without decompress/recompressing. This file_offset is missing in python 2.6, so is there another option than creating another zipfile by uncompressing every file and then recompressing it again? Is there maybe a direct way of deleting a file in the zipfile, I searched and didn't find anything. Continue reading...
