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| author | guoci <zguoci@gmail.com> | 2018-11-07 09:50:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2018-11-07 09:50:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 0e7497cb469b003a45a4abe4105b81ef6d0c4002 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c14770bf03a79d5e2ce008432309cfbddab858e /Doc/library/gzip.rst | |
| parent | d2b11af91560eaaeb499f702f4b0f244ec756280 (diff) | |
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bpo-34898: Add mtime parameter to gzip.compress(). (GH-9704)
Without setting mtime, time.time() will be used as the timestamp which will
end up in the compressed data and each invocation of the compress() function
will vary over time.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst index a57307b..8850a33 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst @@ -157,13 +157,15 @@ The module defines the following items: Accepts a :term:`path-like object`. -.. function:: compress(data, compresslevel=9) +.. function:: compress(data, compresslevel=9, *, mtime=None) Compress the *data*, returning a :class:`bytes` object containing - the compressed data. *compresslevel* has the same meaning as in + the compressed data. *compresslevel* and *mtime* have the same meaning as in the :class:`GzipFile` constructor above. .. versionadded:: 3.2 + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 + Added the *mtime* parameter for reproducible output. .. function:: decompress(data) |