Monte Davidoff added the comment:
I agree it may be better if we don't describe all the details of ZIP64. How
about this rewording for the second change, so we don't have to give all the
details?
(2) In the description of the zipfile.ZipFile class, change:
"If allowZip
Monte Davidoff added the comment:
Serhiy, merely reverting the change would not fix the originally reported
problem in the documentation. Based on your additional information, and to
prevent the need to describe the ZIP64 extensions in more than one place, I
suggest two changes:
(1) Change
Monte Davidoff added the comment:
Serhiy, thank you for the correction and the additional information. I tried
reading a zip file larger than 4 GiB with allowZip64=False, and it worked, so
it looks like allowZip64 only applies to writing. I suggest we fix the
inconsistency in the
New submission from Monte Davidoff:
The documentation for the zipfile module,
https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/zipfile.html, contains inconsistent
descriptions of the maximum size of a ZIP file when allowZip64 is False.
The second paragraph in the zipfile module documentation states:
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