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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 10a094f8b1..d40315eaf8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -134,12 +134,16 @@ ZipFile Objects Open a ZIP file, where *file* can be either a path to a file (a string) or a file-like object. The *mode* parameter should be ``'r'`` to read an existing - file, ``'w'`` to truncate and write a new file, or ``'a'`` to append to an - existing file. If *mode* is ``'a'`` and *file* refers to an existing ZIP + file, ``'w'`` to truncate and write a new file, ``'x'`` to exclusive create + and write a new file, or ``'a'`` to append to an existing file. + If *mode* is ``'x'`` and *file* refers to an existing file, + a :exc:`FileExistsError` will be raised. + If *mode* is ``'a'`` and *file* refers to an existing ZIP file, then additional files are added to it. If *file* does not refer to a 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 @@ -151,7 +155,7 @@ ZipFile Objects extensions when the zipfile is larger than 2 GiB. If it is false :mod:`zipfile` will raise an exception when the ZIP file would require ZIP64 extensions. - If the file is created with mode ``'a'`` or ``'w'`` and then + If the file is created with mode ``'w'``, ``'x'`` or ``'a'`` and then :meth:`closed <close>` without adding any files to the archive, the appropriate ZIP structures for an empty archive will be written to the file. @@ -171,6 +175,10 @@ ZipFile Objects .. versionchanged:: 3.4 ZIP64 extensions are enabled by default. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + Added support for writing to unseekable streams. + Added support for the ``'x'`` mode. + .. method:: ZipFile.close() @@ -226,14 +234,8 @@ 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:: @@ -318,7 +320,8 @@ ZipFile Objects *arcname* (by default, this will be the same as *filename*, but without a drive letter and with leading path separators removed). If given, *compress_type* overrides the value given for the *compression* parameter to the constructor for - the new entry. The archive must be open with mode ``'w'`` or ``'a'`` -- calling + the new entry. + The archive must be open with mode ``'w'``, ``'x'`` or ``'a'`` -- calling :meth:`write` on a ZipFile created with mode ``'r'`` will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. Calling :meth:`write` on a closed ZipFile will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. @@ -340,16 +343,16 @@ 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 name it will be given in the archive, or a :class:`ZipInfo` instance. If it's an instance, at least the filename, date, and time must be given. If it's a - name, the date and time is set to the current date and time. The archive must be - opened with mode ``'w'`` or ``'a'`` -- calling :meth:`writestr` on a ZipFile - created with mode ``'r'`` will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. Calling - :meth:`writestr` on a closed ZipFile will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. + name, the date and time is set to the current date and time. + The archive must be opened with mode ``'w'``, ``'x'`` or ``'a'`` -- calling + :meth:`writestr` on a ZipFile created with mode ``'r'`` will raise a + :exc:`RuntimeError`. Calling :meth:`writestr` on a closed ZipFile will + raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`. If given, *compress_type* overrides the value given for the *compression* parameter to the constructor for the new entry, or in the *zinfo_or_arcname* @@ -377,7 +380,8 @@ The following data attributes are also available: .. attribute:: ZipFile.comment The comment text associated with the ZIP file. If assigning a comment to a - :class:`ZipFile` instance created with mode 'a' or 'w', this should be a + :class:`ZipFile` instance created with mode ``'w'``, ``'x'`` or ``'a'``, + this should be a string no longer than 65535 bytes. Comments longer than this will be truncated in the written archive when :meth:`close` is called. @@ -407,8 +411,7 @@ The :class:`PyZipFile` constructor takes the same parameters as the archive. If the *optimize* parameter to :class:`PyZipFile` was not given or ``-1``, - the corresponding file is a :file:`\*.pyo` file if available, else a - :file:`\*.pyc` file, compiling if necessary. + the corresponding file is a :file:`\*.pyc` file, compiling if necessary. If the *optimize* parameter to :class:`PyZipFile` was ``0``, ``1`` or ``2``, only files with that optimization level (see :func:`compile`) are @@ -571,4 +574,3 @@ Instances have the following attributes: .. attribute:: ZipInfo.file_size Size of the uncompressed file. - |