[docs] [issue29013] zipfile: inconsistent doc for ZIP64 file size

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

The documentation was correct. The zipfile module supports *reading* ZIP files up to 4 GiB without the ZIP64 extension, but it requires allowZip64=True for *writing* over 2 GiB files to the ZIP file.

The 2 GiB limit is safer because generated ZIP files can be read by implementations that interpret 32-bit sizes as signed. For example Java don't have unsigned integers. And zipfile and zipimport in old Python versions unpack some fields as signed integers.

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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
resolution: fixed -> 
stage: resolved -> 
status: closed -> open

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