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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 92a4526..6c946f8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -16,14 +16,18 @@ advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as defined in `PKZIP Application Note <http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/>`_. -This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments, or -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 cannot currently create an encrypted -file. - -The available attributes of this module are: - +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 +(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. + +For other archive formats, see the :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip`, and +:mod:`tarfile` modules. + +The module defines the following items: .. exception:: BadZipfile |