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authorJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>1999-04-05 21:55:21 (GMT)
committerJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>1999-04-05 21:55:21 (GMT)
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correct version info for zlib.
add note about module failing with old versions of the library. update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-% XXX The module has been extended (by Jeremy) but this documentation
-% hasn't been updated completely.
+% XXX The module has been extended (by Jeremy and Andrew) but this
+% documentation is incorrect in some cases.
\section{\module{zlib} ---
- Compression library compatible with \program{gzip}.}
+ Compression library compatible with \program{gzip}}
\declaremodule{builtin}{zlib}
\modulesynopsis{Low-level interface to compression and decompression
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ routines compatible with \program{gzip}.}
For applications that require data compression, the functions in this
module allow compression and decompression, using the zlib library.
The zlib library has its own home page at
-\url{http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/}. Version 1.0.4 is the
-most recent version as of December, 1997; use a later version if one
-is available.
+\url{http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/}. Version 1.1.3 is the
+most recent version as of April 199; use a later version if one
+is available. There are known incompatibilities between the Python
+module and earlier versions of the zlib library.
+
+The documentation for this module is woefully out of date. In some
+cases, the doc strings have been updated more recently. In other
+cases, they are both stale.
The available exception and functions in this module are: