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r85455 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:59:45 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#1710703: write zipfile structures also in the case of closing a new, but empty, archive.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
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@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@
and :program:`unzip` commands on Unix (the InfoZIP utilities) don't support
these extensions.
+ If the file is created with mode ``'a'`` or ``'w'`` and then
+ :meth:`close`\ d without adding any files to the archive, the appropriate
+ ZIP structures for an empty archive will be written to the file.
+
ZipFile is also a context manager and therefore supports the
:keyword:`with` statement. In the example, *myzip* is closed after the
:keyword:`with` statement's suite is finished---even if an exception occurs::