Message283597
The documentation for the zipfile module, https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/zipfile.html, contains inconsistent descriptions of the maximum size of a ZIP file when allowZip64 is False.
The second paragraph in the zipfile module documentation states:
"It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions (that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GiB in size)."
Later on, in the description of the zipfile.ZipFile class, it says:
"If allowZip64 is True (the default) zipfile will create ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions when the zipfile is larger than 2 GiB."
The two sizes (4 GiB and 2 GiB) should be the same. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64, 4 GiB is the correct value.
There is a similar problem in the 2.7.13 documentation, https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/zipfile.html. |
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2016-12-19 09:04:33 | mndavidoff | set | recipients:
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2016-12-19 09:04:33 | mndavidoff | set | messageid: <1482138273.34.0.375914911911.issue29013@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2016-12-19 09:04:33 | mndavidoff | link | issue29013 messages |
2016-12-19 09:04:32 | mndavidoff | create | |
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