From 91f9429bc34aa8879fd65fcbcbe81b5e923fc8cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Summerfield Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:38:50 +0000 Subject: Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive members even though comments to the archive itself aren't currently supported. --- Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 0fa741f..f2551d7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as defined in `PKZIP Application Note `_. -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 currently cannot create an encrypted -file. +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. -- cgit v0.12