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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2007-11-05 19:43:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2007-11-05 19:43:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 7767711f543b39a5a5e2e377e0eee33a0e50f700 (patch) | |
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| parent | c4cb3b8aa14540f730f82f64add243d6ba8b6fcd (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 58817-58861 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r58822 | brett.cannon | 2007-11-02 23:47:02 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Add a missing quotation mark.
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r58840 | skip.montanaro | 2007-11-04 07:56:52 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5. Will backport to 2.5.
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r58844 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-04 09:43:49 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Fix syntax for versionchanged markup.
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r58850 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-04 18:32:26 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 9 lines
Fixes bug 477182 on pybsddb.sf.net. DB objects now load the flags and
pay attention to them when opening an existing database. This means
that d[] behaves properly even on databases previously created with DB_DUP
or DB_DUPSORT flags to allow duplicate keys.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=477182&group_id=13900&atid=113900
Do not backport, this bugfix could be considered an API change.
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r58851 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-04 18:56:31 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
Improve test_lock's tempdir creation and cleanup.
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r58852 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-05 01:06:28 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
* db->get_types is only available in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2
* get compiling with older versions of python again for a stand alone release.
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r58853 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-05 01:07:40 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
* db->get_flags is only available in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2
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r58854 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-05 01:22:48 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references between the various archive file formats.
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r58857 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-05 06:38:50 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 5 lines
Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive
members even though comments to the archive itself aren't currently
supported.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 92a4526..6c946f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -16,14 +16,18 @@ 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 cannot currently create an encrypted -file. - -The available attributes of this module are: - +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. + +The module defines the following items: .. exception:: BadZipfile |