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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2014-12-03 09:11:57 +0200
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2014-12-03 09:11:57 +0200
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Issue #14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects
returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first argument to the constructor.
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@@ -219,14 +219,8 @@ ZipFile Objects
.. note::
- If the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first
- argument to the constructor, then the object returned by :meth:`.open` shares the
- ZipFile's file pointer. Under these circumstances, the object returned by
- :meth:`.open` should not be used after any additional operations are performed
- on the ZipFile object. If the ZipFile was created by passing in a string (the
- filename) as the first argument to the constructor, then :meth:`.open` will
- create a new file object that will be held by the ZipExtFile, allowing it to
- operate independently of the ZipFile.
+ Objects returned by :meth:`.open` can operate independently of the
+ ZipFile.
.. note::