This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author mndavidoff
Recipients docs@python, mndavidoff
Date 2016-12-19.09:04:32
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1482138273.34.0.375914911911.issue29013@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content
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.
History
Date User Action Args
2016-12-19 09:04:33mndavidoffsetrecipients: + mndavidoff, docs@python
2016-12-19 09:04:33mndavidoffsetmessageid: <1482138273.34.0.375914911911.issue29013@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-12-19 09:04:33mndavidofflinkissue29013 messages
2016-12-19 09:04:32mndavidoffcreate