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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-11-04 19:50:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2002-11-04 19:50:11 (GMT) |
| commit | fb0ea525d528153838586bf8ece15a45bbf5ddf3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dbd427c60c6142e6bfd146e998d88c07f1aedc6 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 47ca2bc661e39238a948d1c967756fd0580c3502 (diff) | |
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Related to SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G.
Fixed the signed/unsigned confusions when dealing with files >= 2GB.
4GB is still a hard limitation of the gzip file format, though.
Testing this was a bitch on Win98SE due to frequent system freezes. It
didn't freeze while running gzip, it kept freezing while trying to *create*
a > 2GB test file! This wasn't Python's doing. I don't know of a
reasonable way to test this functionality in regrtest.py, so I'm not
checking in a test case (a test case would necessarily require creating
a 2GB+ file first, using gzip to zip it, using gzip to unzip it again,
and then compare before-and-after; so >4GB free space would be required,
and a loooong time; I did all this "by hand" once).
Bugfix candidate, I guess.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -355,6 +355,10 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- gzip.py now handles files exceeding 2GB. Note that 4GB is still a + fundamental limitation of the underlying gzip file format (it only + has 32 bits to record the file size). + - xml.sax.saxutils.unescape has been added, to replace entity references with their entity value. @@ -365,7 +369,7 @@ Library - Various configure methods of Tkinter have been stream-lined, so that tag_configure, image_configure, window_configure now return a - dictionary when invoked with no argument. + dictionary when invoked with no argument. - Importing the readline module now no longer has the side effect of calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). The initial "C" locale, or |