The gzip specification [1] makes clear that the mtime field is always present. The time is in Unix format, i.e., seconds since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970. MTIME = 0 means no time stamp is available. Hence no need for a new constant NO_TIMESTAMP.
So this is primarily a documentation problem [2]. For this, I will create a pull request to gzip.py. Joachim [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt [2] https://discuss.python.org/t/gzip-py-allow-deterministic-compression-without-time-stamp _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LCPWERWIFG4AJS6DPHNEMOGBYJ2APDJ3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
