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Expand Up @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file. Any
advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as
defined in `PKZIP Application Note`_.

This module does not currently handle multi-disk ZIP files.
This module does not handle multipart ZIP files.
It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions
(that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GiB in size). It supports
decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot
decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it cannot
create an encrypted file. Decryption is extremely slow as it is
implemented in native Python rather than C.

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.. _zipfile-objects:

ZipFile Objects
ZipFile objects
---------------


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.. note::

*metadata_encoding* is an instance-wide setting for the ZipFile.
It is not currently possible to set this on a per-member basis.
It is not possible to set this on a per-member basis.

This attribute is a workaround for legacy implementations which produce
archives with names in the current locale encoding or code page (mostly
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.. _path-objects:

Path Objects
Path objects
------------

.. class:: Path(root, at='')
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.. _pyzipfile-objects:

PyZipFile Objects
PyZipFile objects
-----------------

The :class:`PyZipFile` constructor takes the same parameters as the
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.. _zipinfo-objects:

ZipInfo Objects
ZipInfo objects
---------------

Instances of the :class:`ZipInfo` class are returned by the :meth:`.getinfo` and
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.. _zipfile-commandline:
.. program:: zipfile

Command-Line Interface
Command-line interface
----------------------

The :mod:`zipfile` module provides a simple command-line interface to interact
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Decompression may fail due to incorrect password / CRC checksum / ZIP format or
unsupported compression method / decryption.

File System limitations
File system limitations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Exceeding limitations on different file systems can cause decompression failed.
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