[Python-Dev] Request for Pronouncement: PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 24.02.15 21:01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com
> <mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 24 February 2015 at 18:24, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
>     <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
>     > I'd specify that when the output argument is a file open for writing, it is
>     > the caller's responsibility to close the file.  Also, can the file be a
>     > pipe?  (I.e. are we using seek()/tell() or not?)  And what about the input
>     > archive?  Can that be a file open for reading?
>
>     I'll clarify all of these points. They are mostly "it can be whatever
>     the zipfile module accepts", though, which isn't explicitly stated
>     itself :-(

See issue23252.

https://bugs.python.org/issue23252