diff --git a/src/core/IronPython.Modules/ResourceMetaPathImporter.cs b/src/core/IronPython.Modules/ResourceMetaPathImporter.cs
index 5730f201b..73f947fbe 100644
--- a/src/core/IronPython.Modules/ResourceMetaPathImporter.cs
+++ b/src/core/IronPython.Modules/ResourceMetaPathImporter.cs
@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Reflection;
 
 using IronPython.Runtime;
 using IronPython.Runtime.Exceptions;
-using IronPython.Zlib;
 
 using Microsoft.Scripting;
 using Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime;
 
 namespace IronPython.Modules {
     /// <summary>
-    /// Implementes a resource-based meta_path importer as described in PEP 302.
+    /// Implements a resource-based meta_path importer as described in PEP 302.
     /// </summary>
     [PythonType]
     public class ResourceMetaPathImporter {
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ public object load_module(CodeContext /*!*/ context, string fullname) {
                                                   ModuleOptions.None, out script);
 
             var dict = mod.__dict__;
-            // we do these here because we don't want CompileModule to initialize the module until we've set 
+            // we do these here because we don't want CompileModule to initialize the module until we've set
             // up some additional stuff
             dict.Add("__name__", fullname);
             dict.Add("__loader__", this);
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ private byte[] GetCodeFromData(CodeContext /*!*/ context, bool isbytecode, Packe
 
             if (data != null) {
                 if (isbytecode) {
-                    // would put in code to unmarshal the bytecode here...                                     
+                    // would put in code to unmarshal the bytecode here...
                 } else {
                     code = data;
                 }
@@ -411,17 +411,13 @@ public bool GetData(PackedResourceInfo tocEntry, out byte[] result, out string u
                         reader.BaseStream.Seek(fileOffset, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                         byte[] rawData;
                         try {
-                            rawData = reader.ReadBytes(compress == 0 ? dataSize : dataSize + 1);
+                            rawData = reader.ReadBytes(dataSize);
                         } catch {
                             unpackingError = "Can't read data";
                             return false;
                         }
 
-                        if (compress != 0) {
-                            rawData[dataSize] = (byte)'Z';
-                        }
-
-                        result = compress == 0 ? rawData : ZlibModule.Decompress(rawData, -15);
+                        result = compress == 0 ? rawData : Inflate(rawData);
                         return true;
                     }
                 } catch (Exception exception) {
@@ -429,6 +425,13 @@ public bool GetData(PackedResourceInfo tocEntry, out byte[] result, out string u
                     return false;
                 }
             }
+
+            private static byte[] Inflate(byte[] data) {
+                using var input = new DeflateStream(new MemoryStream(data), CompressionMode.Decompress);
+                using var output = new MemoryStream();
+                input.CopyTo(output);
+                return output.ToArray();
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/IronPython.Tests/IronPython.Tests.csproj b/tests/IronPython.Tests/IronPython.Tests.csproj
index 17e5d3d40..2e8c614b4 100644
--- a/tests/IronPython.Tests/IronPython.Tests.csproj
+++ b/tests/IronPython.Tests/IronPython.Tests.csproj
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\src\core\IronPython\IronPython.csproj" />
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\src\core\IronPython.Modules\IronPython.Modules.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(IsFullFramework)' == 'true' ">
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <EmbeddedResource Include="Cases\*.ini" />
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.zip" LogicalName="ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.zip" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/tests/IronPython.Tests/ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.cs b/tests/IronPython.Tests/ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0dd0c23e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/IronPython.Tests/ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the Apache 2.0 License.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+using IronPython.Hosting;
+using IronPython.Modules;
+
+using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
+
+using NUnit.Framework;
+
+namespace IronPythonTest {
+    [TestFixture(Category = "IronPython")]
+    public class ResourceMetaPathImporterTest {
+        private ScriptEngine _engine;
+        private ResourceMetaPathImporter _importer;
+
+        [SetUp]
+        public void SetUp() {
+            _engine = Python.CreateEngine();
+            _importer = new ResourceMetaPathImporter(typeof(ResourceMetaPathImporterTest).Assembly, "ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.zip");
+            var metaPath = _engine.GetSysModule().GetVariable<IList<object>>("meta_path");
+            metaPath.Add(_importer);
+        }
+
+        private string ImportValue(string module) {
+            var scope = _engine.CreateScope();
+            _engine.Execute($"import {module} as m\nvalue = m.value", scope);
+            return scope.GetVariable<string>("value");
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void ImportDeflated() {
+            Assert.That(ImportValue("deflated"), Is.EqualTo(string.Concat(Enumerable.Repeat("deflated ", 1000))));
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void ImportStored() {
+            Assert.That(ImportValue("stored"), Is.EqualTo("stored"));
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void ImportPackage() {
+            Assert.That(ImportValue("pkg"), Is.EqualTo("pkg"));
+            Assert.That(ImportValue("pkg.sub"), Is.EqualTo("pkg.sub"));
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void FindMissingModule() {
+            var scope = _engine.CreateScope();
+            scope.SetVariable("importer", _importer);
+            _engine.Execute("value = importer.find_module('missing')", scope);
+            Assert.That(scope.GetVariable("value"), Is.Null);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/IronPython.Tests/ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.zip b/tests/IronPython.Tests/ResourceMetaPathImporterTest.zip
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aaee92df1
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