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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/gzip.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py index fda93e0..1d6faaa 100644 --- a/Lib/gzip.py +++ b/Lib/gzip.py @@ -178,9 +178,10 @@ class GzipFile(_compression.BaseStream): and 9 is slowest and produces the most compression. 0 is no compression at all. The default is 9. - The mtime argument is an optional numeric timestamp to be written - to the last modification time field in the stream when compressing. - If omitted or None, the current time is used. + The optional mtime argument is the timestamp requested by gzip. The time + is in Unix format, i.e., seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970. + If mtime is omitted or None, the current time is used. Use mtime = 0 + to generate a compressed stream that does not depend on creation time. """ |