news entry for issue19081 fix.

7902f8dd · Gregory P. Smith · b48c5d51 · 7902f8dd
Commit 7902f8dd authored Jan 06, 2014 by Gregory P. Smith
Hide whitespace changes
Inline Side-by-side

Showing with 5 additions and 0 deletions

Misc/NEWS Misc/NEWS +5 -0

No files found.
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.7?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------

+- Issue #19081: When a zipimport .zip file in sys.path being imported from
+  is modified during the lifetime of the Python process after zipimport has
+  already cached the zip's table of contents we detect this and recover
+  rather than read bad data from the .zip (causing odd import errors).
+
 - Raise a better error when non-unicode codecs are used for a file's coding
  cookie.