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@@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as
defined in `PKZIP Application Note
<http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>`_.
-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
+This module does not currently handle 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 currently cannot
create an encrypted file. Decryption is extremely slow as it is
@@ -67,7 +65,6 @@ The module defines the following items:
Returns ``True`` if *filename* is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number,
otherwise returns ``False``. *filename* may be a file or file-like object too.
- This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments.
.. versionchanged:: 2.7
Support for file and file-like objects.