[Python-checkins] r60123 - in python/trunk: Doc/library/zipfile.rst Lib/zipfile.py

[gregory.p.smith]

Author: gregory.p.smith
Date: Sun Jan 20 02:32:00 2008
New Revision: 60123

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
   python/trunk/Lib/zipfile.py
Log:
Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and
blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of
how you spell it).


Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/library/zipfile.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/zipfile.rst	Sun Jan 20 02:32:00 2008
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 documentation). It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions
 (that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size).  It supports
 decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it currently cannot
-create an encrypted file.
+create an encrypted file.  Decryption is extremely slow as it is
+implemented in native python rather than C.
 
 For other archive formats, see the :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip`, and
 :mod:`tarfile` modules.

Modified: python/trunk/Lib/zipfile.py
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Lib/zipfile.py	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Lib/zipfile.py	Sun Jan 20 02:32:00 2008
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 
     ZIP supports a password-based form of encryption. Even though known
     plaintext attacks have been found against it, it is still useful
-    for low-level securicy.
+    to be able to get data out of such a file.
 
     Usage:
         zd = _ZipDecrypter(mypwd)