Calling `ZipFile.mkdir()` on a new `ZipInfo` object gets an attribute error
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Description
Bug report
Bug description:
with zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(), 'w') as zh:
zinfo = zipfile.ZipInfo('mydir/')
zh.mkdir(zinfo)
The above code raises AttributeError: 'zipfile.ZipInfo' object has no attribute 'CRC'.
CPython versions tested on:
3.14
Operating systems tested on:
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Linked PRs
- gh-154198
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with the provided ZipFile.mkdir() and new ZipInfo example, then inspect the ZipFile.mkdir entry point and the linked PR gh-154198. Done means the example completes without AttributeError and regression coverage verifies creating the directory entry from a new ZipInfo object.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100