Feb. 25, 2015
9:11 a.m.
On 24.02.15 21:01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com <mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 24 February 2015 at 18:24, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org <mailto:guido@python.org>> wrote: > I'd specify that when the output argument is a file open for writing, it is > the caller's responsibility to close the file. Also, can the file be a > pipe? (I.e. are we using seek()/tell() or not?) And what about the input > archive? Can that be a file open for reading?
I'll clarify all of these points. They are mostly "it can be whatever the zipfile module accepts", though, which isn't explicitly stated itself :-(
See issue23252. https://bugs.python.org/issue23252