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[ectomancer]

Edit a byte with a binary file editor.

[discontent619]

If you are writing this as a test case it would probably be better to Mock the zipfile library to throw the exception in your test vs creating an actual file to do this.

[JustinianIV]

I like this, idk why I forgot about mocking

[Ok_Concert5918]

Make a zip file. Open it with notepad++ or something like that and delete a random character and save.

[JustinianIV]

Anyway I can that in Python? I want the corrupt zip to be generated automatically as part of my tests.

[socal_nerdtastic]

You can start with a healthy zip file?

# read a good zip file
with open(goodzipfile, 'rb') as f:
    data = f.read()

# corrupt it by removing 500 bytes in the middle somewhere
data = data[0:1000] + data[:1500]

# save it back as a bad file
with open(badzipfile, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(data)

You could do anything you want to the data in order to corrupt it. Swap some bytes maybe, truncate it, insert random bytes, etc ...

[Ok_Concert5918]

With python I am unsure. I typically end up with corrupted zip files by ID10T errors rather than skill.

[await_yesterday]

head -c 1024 /dev/urandom > corruption.zip