A backport of the zipfile module from Python 3.8, which contains notable improvements such as the "strict_timestamps" keyword argument (which enables the creation of reproducible zip archives).

installation:

pip install zipfile38

usage:

if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
    import zipfile
else:
    import zipfile38 as zipfile

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shout out to Thomas Kluyver's backport for 3.6 and Markus Scheidgen's backport for 3.7.