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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/gzip.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst index 8850a33..3349a94 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst @@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ The module defines the following items: .. versionchanged:: 3.6 Accepts a :term:`path-like object`. +.. exception:: BadGzipFile + + An exception raised for invalid gzip files. It inherits :exc:`OSError`. + :exc:`EOFError` and :exc:`zlib.error` can also be raised for invalid gzip + files. + + .. versionadded:: 3.8 + .. class:: GzipFile(filename=None, mode=None, compresslevel=9, fileobj=None, mtime=None) Constructor for the :class:`GzipFile` class, which simulates most of the diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 2cfb110..684656f 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ gzip Added the *mtime* parameter to :func:`gzip.compress` for reproducible output. (Contributed by Guo Ci Teo in :issue:`34898`.) +A :exc:`~gzip.BadGzipFile` exception is now raised instead of :exc:`OSError` +for certain types of invalid or corrupt gzip files. +(Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński, Michele Orrù, and Zackery Spytz in +:issue:`6584`.) + idlelib and IDLE ---------------- |