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@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Reading and writing compressed files
opened, or it can be an existing file object to read from or write to.
The *mode* argument can be any of ``"r"``, ``"rb"``, ``"w"``, ``"wb"``,
- ``"a"`` or ``"ab"`` for binary mode, or ``"rt"``, ``"wt"``, or ``"at"`` for
- text mode. The default is ``"rb"``.
+ ``"x"``, ``"xb"``, ``"a"`` or ``"ab"`` for binary mode, or ``"rt"``,
+ ``"wt"``, ``"xt"``, or ``"at"`` for text mode. The default is ``"rb"``.
When opening a file for reading, the *format* and *filters* arguments have
the same meanings as for :class:`LZMADecompressor`. In this case, the *check*
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Reading and writing compressed files
:class:`io.TextIOWrapper` instance with the specified encoding, error
handling behavior, and line ending(s).
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ Added support for the ``"x"``, ``"xb"`` and ``"xt"`` modes.
+
.. class:: LZMAFile(filename=None, mode="r", \*, format=None, check=-1, preset=None, filters=None)
@@ -69,8 +72,9 @@ Reading and writing compressed files
file will not be closed when the :class:`LZMAFile` is closed.
The *mode* argument can be either ``"r"`` for reading (default), ``"w"`` for
- overwriting, or ``"a"`` for appending. These can equivalently be given as
- ``"rb"``, ``"wb"``, and ``"ab"`` respectively.
+ overwriting, ``"x"`` for exclusive creation, or ``"a"`` for appending. These
+ can equivalently be given as ``"rb"``, ``"wb"``, ``"xb"`` and ``"ab"``
+ respectively.
If *filename* is a file object (rather than an actual file name), a mode of
``"w"`` does not truncate the file, and is instead equivalent to ``"a"``.
@@ -98,6 +102,9 @@ Reading and writing compressed files
byte of data will be returned, unless EOF has been reached. The exact
number of bytes returned is unspecified (the *size* argument is ignored).
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ Added support for the ``"x"`` and ``"xb"`` modes.
+
Compressing and decompressing data in memory
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