diff -r ea677e26dbeb Doc/library/zipfile.rst
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst	Mon Apr 14 12:24:37 2014 -0400
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst	Mon Apr 14 18:03:42 2014 -0400
@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@
       characters (``:``, ``<``, ``>``, ``|``, ``"``, ``?``, and ``*``)
       replaced by underscore (``_``).
 
+   .. note::
+
+      File permissions are not passed to the extracted file. The extracted
+      file will use the users umask instead of the source files permissions.
+
 
 .. method:: ZipFile.extractall([path[, members[, pwd]]])
 
@@ -239,6 +244,11 @@
       that have absolute filenames starting with ``"/"`` or filenames with two
       dots ``".."``.
 
+   .. note:
+
+      File permissions are not passed to the extracted file. The extracted
+      file will use the users umask instead of the source files permissions.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 2.7.4
       The zipfile module attempts to prevent that.  See :meth:`extract` note.
 
@@ -326,6 +336,15 @@
       member of the given :class:`ZipInfo` instance.  By default, the
       :class:`ZipInfo` constructor sets this member to :const:`ZIP_STORED`.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      To set the permissions of the compressed file the ZipInfo.external_attr
+      attribute will need to be set before calling ZipFile.writestr.
+
+      example:
+
+      ZipInfo.external_attr = 0777 << 16L # give full access to included file
+
    .. versionchanged:: 2.7
       The *compress_type* argument.
 
diff -r ea677e26dbeb Lib/zipfile.py
--- a/Lib/zipfile.py	Mon Apr 14 12:24:37 2014 -0400
+++ b/Lib/zipfile.py	Mon Apr 14 18:03:42 2014 -0400
@@ -1018,6 +1018,8 @@
            using its full name. Its file information is extracted as accurately
            as possible. `member' may be a filename or a ZipInfo object. You can
            specify a different directory using `path'.
+
+	   Ignores target files permissions, uses user umask.
         """
         if not isinstance(member, ZipInfo):
             member = self.getinfo(member)
@@ -1032,6 +1034,8 @@
            directory. `path' specifies a different directory to extract to.
            `members' is optional and must be a subset of the list returned
            by namelist().
+
+	   Ignores target files permissions, uses user umask.
         """
         if members is None:
             members = self.namelist()
@@ -1042,6 +1046,8 @@
     def _extract_member(self, member, targetpath, pwd):
         """Extract the ZipInfo object 'member' to a physical
            file on the path targetpath.
+
+	   Ignores target files permissions, uses user umask.
         """
         # build the destination pathname, replacing
         # forward slashes to platform specific separators.
@@ -1200,7 +1206,12 @@
     def writestr(self, zinfo_or_arcname, bytes, compress_type=None):
         """Write a file into the archive.  The contents is the string
         'bytes'.  'zinfo_or_arcname' is either a ZipInfo instance or
-        the name of the file in the archive."""
+        the name of the file in the archive.
+
+	The compressed file permissions default to 0600 unless 
+	ZipInfo.external_attr is set before Zipfile.writestr is
+        called.
+	"""
         if not isinstance(zinfo_or_arcname, ZipInfo):
             zinfo = ZipInfo(filename=zinfo_or_arcname,
                             date_time=time.localtime(time.time())[:6])