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

Serhiy Storchaka report at bugs.python.org
Wed Sep 19 03:43:06 EDT 2018


Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:

I think we should just revert this. The zipfile module can handle ZIP files up to 4 GiB without the ZIP64 extensions, but it requires the ZIP64 extensions for creating ZIP files larger than 2 GiB. The ZIP64 extensions is required also for ZIP files with more than 65535 files.

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versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.5

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