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index 7a6482b..1d23a7c 100644
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+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ ZipFile Objects
---------------
-.. class:: ZipFile(file, mode='r', compression=ZIP_STORED, allowZip64=False)
+.. class:: ZipFile(file, mode='r', compression=ZIP_STORED, allowZip64=True)
Open a ZIP file, where *file* can be either a path to a file (a string) or a
file-like object. The *mode* parameter should be ``'r'`` to read an existing
@@ -144,15 +144,12 @@ ZipFile Objects
and should be :const:`ZIP_STORED`, :const:`ZIP_DEFLATED`,
:const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or :const:`ZIP_LZMA`; unrecognized
values will cause :exc:`RuntimeError` to be raised. If :const:`ZIP_DEFLATED`,
- :const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or :const:`ZIP_LZMA` is specified but the corresponded module
+ :const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or :const:`ZIP_LZMA` is specified but the corresponding module
(:mod:`zlib`, :mod:`bz2` or :mod:`lzma`) is not available, :exc:`RuntimeError`
is also raised. The default is :const:`ZIP_STORED`. If *allowZip64* is
- ``True`` zipfile will create ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions when
- the zipfile is larger than 2 GiB. If it is false (the default) :mod:`zipfile`
+ ``True`` (the default) zipfile will create ZIP files that use the ZIP64
+ extensions when the zipfile is larger than 2 GiB. If it is false :mod:`zipfile`
will raise an exception when the ZIP file would require ZIP64 extensions.
- ZIP64 extensions are disabled by default because the default :program:`zip`
- and :program:`unzip` commands on Unix (the InfoZIP utilities) don't support
- these extensions.
If the file is created with mode ``'a'`` or ``'w'`` and then
:meth:`closed <close>` without adding any files to the archive, the appropriate
@@ -171,6 +168,9 @@ ZipFile Objects
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Added support for :mod:`bzip2 <bz2>` and :mod:`lzma` compression.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ ZIP64 extensions are enabled by default.
+
.. method:: ZipFile.close()
@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ ZipFile Objects
or a :class:`ZipInfo` object. You will appreciate this when trying to read a
ZIP file that contains members with duplicate names.
+ .. deprecated-removed:: 3.4 3.6
+ The ``'U'`` or ``'rU'`` mode. Use :class:`io.TextIOWrapper` for reading
+ compressed text files in :term:`universal newlines` mode.
.. method:: ZipFile.extract(member, path=None, pwd=None)
@@ -266,10 +269,8 @@ ZipFile Objects
Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection.
It is possible that files are created outside of *path*, e.g. members
that have absolute filenames starting with ``"/"`` or filenames with two
- dots ``".."``.
-
- .. versionchanged:: 3.3.1
- The zipfile module attempts to prevent that. See :meth:`extract` note.
+ dots ``".."``. This module attempts to prevent that.
+ See :meth:`extract` note.
.. method:: ZipFile.printdir()
@@ -376,15 +377,18 @@ PyZipFile Objects
The :class:`PyZipFile` constructor takes the same parameters as the
:class:`ZipFile` constructor, and one additional parameter, *optimize*.
-.. class:: PyZipFile(file, mode='r', compression=ZIP_STORED, allowZip64=False, \
+.. class:: PyZipFile(file, mode='r', compression=ZIP_STORED, allowZip64=True, \
optimize=-1)
.. versionadded:: 3.2
The *optimize* parameter.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ ZIP64 extensions are enabled by default.
+
Instances have one method in addition to those of :class:`ZipFile` objects:
- .. method:: PyZipFile.writepy(pathname, basename='')
+ .. method:: PyZipFile.writepy(pathname, basename='', filterfunc=None)
Search for files :file:`\*.py` and add the corresponding file to the
archive.
@@ -397,16 +401,33 @@ The :class:`PyZipFile` constructor takes the same parameters as the
``2``, only files with that optimization level (see :func:`compile`) are
added to the archive, compiling if necessary.
- If the pathname is a file, the filename must end with :file:`.py`, and
+ If *pathname* is a file, the filename must end with :file:`.py`, and
just the (corresponding :file:`\*.py[co]`) file is added at the top level
- (no path information). If the pathname is a file that does not end with
+ (no path information). If *pathname* is a file that does not end with
:file:`.py`, a :exc:`RuntimeError` will be raised. If it is a directory,
and the directory is not a package directory, then all the files
:file:`\*.py[co]` are added at the top level. If the directory is a
package directory, then all :file:`\*.py[co]` are added under the package
name as a file path, and if any subdirectories are package directories,
- all of these are added recursively. *basename* is intended for internal
- use only. The :meth:`writepy` method makes archives with file names like
+ all of these are added recursively.
+
+ *basename* is intended for internal use only.
+
+ *filterfunc*, if given, must be a function taking a single string
+ argument. It will be passed each path (including each individual full
+ file path) before it is added to the archive. If *filterfunc* returns a
+ false value, the path will not be added, and if it is a directory its
+ contents will be ignored. For example, if our test files are all either
+ in ``test`` directories or start with the string ``test_``, we can use a
+ *filterfunc* to exclude them::
+
+ >>> zf = PyZipFile('myprog.zip')
+ >>> def notests(s):
+ ... fn = os.path.basename(s)
+ ... return (not (fn == 'test' or fn.startswith('test_')))
+ >>> zf.writepy('myprog', filterfunc=notests)
+
+ The :meth:`writepy` method makes archives with file names like
this::
string.pyc # Top level name
@@ -415,6 +436,9 @@ The :class:`PyZipFile` constructor takes the same parameters as the
test/bogus/__init__.pyc # Subpackage directory
test/bogus/myfile.pyc # Submodule test.bogus.myfile
+ .. versionadded:: 3.4
+ The *filterfunc* parameter.
+
.. _zipinfo-objects: