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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-03-23 01:09:35 +0200
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-03-23 01:09:35 +0200
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Issue #23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams.
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@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ ZipFile Objects
ZIP file, then a new ZIP archive is appended to the file. This is meant for
adding a ZIP archive to another file (such as :file:`python.exe`). If
*mode* is ``a`` and the file does not exist at all, it is created.
+ If *mode* is ``r`` or ``a``, the file should be seekable.
*compression* is the ZIP compression method to use when writing the archive,
and should be :const:`ZIP_STORED`, :const:`ZIP_DEFLATED`,
:const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or :const:`ZIP_LZMA`; unrecognized
@@ -171,6 +172,9 @@ ZipFile Objects
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
ZIP64 extensions are enabled by default.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ Added support for writing to unseekable streams.
+
.. method:: ZipFile.close()
@@ -328,7 +332,6 @@ ZipFile Objects
If ``arcname`` (or ``filename``, if ``arcname`` is not given) contains a null
byte, the name of the file in the archive will be truncated at the null byte.
-
.. method:: ZipFile.writestr(zinfo_or_arcname, bytes[, compress_type])
Write the string *bytes* to the archive; *zinfo_or_arcname* is either the file