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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/gzip.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst | 15 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst index 152cba4..6b6e158 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst @@ -196,7 +196,9 @@ The module defines the following items: .. versionchanged:: 3.11 Speed is improved by compressing all data at once instead of in a streamed fashion. Calls with *mtime* set to ``0`` are delegated to - :func:`zlib.compress` for better speed. + :func:`zlib.compress` for better speed. In this situation the + output may contain a gzip header "OS" byte value other than 255 + "unknown" as supplied by the underlying zlib implementation. .. versionchanged:: 3.13 The gzip header OS byte is guaranteed to be set to 255 when this function diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index 7a74df3..b601bd4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -768,6 +768,21 @@ functools (Contributed by Yurii Karabas in :issue:`46014`.) +.. _whatsnew311-gzip: + +gzip +---- + +* The :func:`gzip.compress` function is now faster when used with the + **mtime=0** argument as it delegates the compression entirely to a single + :func:`zlib.compress` operation. There is one side effect of this change: The + gzip file header contains an "OS" byte in its header. That was traditionally + always set to a value of 255 representing "unknown" by the :mod:`gzip` + module. Now, when using :func:`~gzip.compress` with **mtime=0**, it may be + set to a different value by the underlying zlib C library Python was linked + against. + (See :gh:`112346` for details on the side effect.) + .. _whatsnew311-hashlib: hashlib |