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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-14 06:59:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-10-14 06:59:45 +0000 |
| commit | 268e4d4cf36ad79e71438fd864160892b335388d (patch) | |
| tree | 38a3a4341983fa5caeb6dbaf1489587d665bae79 /Doc | |
| parent | 77658bd9ad81674235f15cf120b195250b5b7c4d (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-268e4d4cf36ad79e71438fd864160892b335388d.tar.gz | |
#1710703: write zipfile structures also in the case of closing a new, but empty, archive.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 09dd571354..864ee48e0a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ ZipFile Objects and :program:`unzip` commands on Unix (the InfoZIP utilities) don't support these extensions. + If the file is created with mode ``'a'`` or ``'w'`` and then + :meth:`close`\ d without adding any files to the archive, the appropriate + ZIP structures for an empty archive will be written to the file. + ZipFile is also a context manager and therefore supports the :keyword:`with` statement. In the example, *myzip* is closed after the :keyword:`with` statement's suite is finished---even if an exception occurs:: |