On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 18:06 +0000, j.wut...@fz-juelich.de wrote: > 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.
I think having an extra constant (equal to 0) wouldn't hurt and could make the code a bit more explicit. -- Best regards, Michał Górny _______________________________________________ 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/KK7J5GZTAR5NKNNN7BGRHZYEP3CWZTPM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
