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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2008-01-20 01:32:00 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2008-01-20 01:32:00 (GMT)
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Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and
blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of how you spell it).
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@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ 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.
+create an encrypted file. Decryption is extremely slow as it is
+implemented in native python rather than C.
For other archive formats, see the :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip`, and
:mod:`tarfile` modules.