On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:53 AM, jesse <chat2je...@gmail.com> wrote: > should not it be 1<<32 -1(4g)? > > normal zip archive format should be able to support 4g file. > > thanks
1<<31-1 is the limit for a signed 32-bit integer. You'd have to look into the details of the zip file format to see whether that's the official limit or not; it might simply be that some (un)archivers have problems with >2GB files, even if the official stance is that it's unsigned. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
