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: "It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions (that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GiB in size)." Later on, in the description of the zipfile.ZipFile class, it says: "If allowZip64 is True (the default) zipfile will create ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions when the zipfile is larger than 2 GiB." The two sizes (4 GiB and 2 GiB) should be the same. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64, 4 GiB is the correct value. There is a similar problem in the 2.7.13 documentation, https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/zipfile.html. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 283597 nosy: docs@python, mndavidoff priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: zipfile: inconsistent doc for ZIP64 file size versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29013> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
