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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 20:52:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 20:52:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 98be996250353fd757acbc6056274aa26e4d10e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 05c83b8cf2e557ffb4dd9dbf149f7fad49545b29 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 222569dc1dd382774a0f623e868bda4f86ad7665 (diff) | |
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#9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index ee46648..edf5185 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as defined in `PKZIP Application Note <http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>`_. -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 +This module does not currently handle 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. Decryption is extremely slow as it is @@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ The module defines the following items: Returns ``True`` if *filename* is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number, otherwise returns ``False``. *filename* may be a file or file-like object too. - This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments. .. versionchanged:: 3.1 Support for file and file-like objects. |