From f2a448a66b94b25abd6c41cdc4c959fcda61eca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:02:20 -0700 Subject: issue22046: mention that zipfile can raise NotImplementedError on unsupported compression algorithms. --- Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index f3e54ca..ecb370b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -298,7 +298,11 @@ ZipFile Objects file in the archive, or a :class:`ZipInfo` object. The archive must be open for read or append. *pwd* is the password used for encrypted files and, if specified, it will override the default password set with :meth:`setpassword`. Calling - :meth:`read` on a closed ZipFile will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. + :meth:`read` on a closed ZipFile will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. Calling + :meth:`read` on a ZipFile that uses a compression method other than + :const:`ZIP_STORED`, :const:`ZIP_DEFLATED`, :const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or + :const:`ZIP_LZMA` will raise a :exc:`NotImplementedError`. An error will also + be raised if the corresponding compression module is not available. .. method:: ZipFile.testzip() -- cgit v0.12