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7.14 zipfile -- Work with ZIP archives
The ZIP file format is a common archive and compression standard. This module provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file.
The available attributes of this module are:
- error
- The error raised for bad ZIP files.
- _debug
- Level of printing, defaults to
1.
- ZipFile (...)
- The class for reading and writing ZIP files. See ``ZipFile Objects'' (section 7.14.1) for constructor details.
- is_zipfile (path)
- Returns true if path is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number, otherwise returns false. This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments.
- zip2date (zdate)
- Return
(year, month, day)for a ZIP date code.
- zip2time (ztime)
- Return
(hour, minute, second)for a ZIP time code.
- date2zip (year, month, day)
- Return a ZIP date code.
- time2zip (hour, minute, second)
- Return a ZIP time code.
- ZIP_STORED
- The numeric constant (
0) for an uncompressed archive member.
- ZIP_DEFLATED
- The numeric constant for the usual ZIP compression method. This requires the zlib module. No other compression methods are currently supported.
See Also:
XXX point to ZIP format definition
XXX point to Info-ZIP home page; mention WiZ
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