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| author | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2007-11-05 14:38:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2007-11-05 14:38:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 91f9429bc34aa8879fd65fcbcbe81b5e923fc8cb (patch) | |
| tree | dfde01d928e99f31a726103a10a0a2cc000a9530 | |
| parent | aea6e5913b66e9dfc8b9099a83b7becac7e74177 (diff) | |
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Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive
members even though comments to the archive itself aren't currently
supported.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 0fa741f..f2551d7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as defined in `PKZIP Application Note <http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/>`_. -This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments, or -multi-disk ZIP files. It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions -(that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size). It supports decryption -of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot create an encrypted -file. +This module does not currently handle multi-disk ZIP files, or ZIP files +which have appended comments (although it correctly handles comments +added to individual archive members---for which see the :ref:`zipinfo-objects` +documentation). It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions +(that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size). It supports +decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot +create an encrypted file. For other archive formats, see the :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip`, and :mod:`tarfile` modules. |