On 24.02.15 21:01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com
<mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    On 24 February 2015 at 18:24, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org
    <mailto:gu...@python.org>> wrote:
    > I'd specify that when the output argument is a file open for writing, it 
is
    > the caller's responsibility to close the file.  Also, can the file be a
    > pipe?  (I.e. are we using seek()/tell() or not?)  And what about the input
    > archive?  Can that be a file open for reading?

    I'll clarify all of these points. They are mostly "it can be whatever
    the zipfile module accepts", though, which isn't explicitly stated
    itself :-(

See issue23252.

https://bugs.python.org/issue23252


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