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authorMark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>2007-11-05 14:38:50 (GMT)
committerMark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>2007-11-05 14:38:50 (GMT)
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Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive
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@@ -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.