From e7fa1204e2dd52ed9705a9fcbd545ba970c23bf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 19:57:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: allowZip64 defaults to True (#17201). --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 2d61cda51de..b0ba6590086 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1589,6 +1589,10 @@ used to control which directories and files are added to the archive. For example, this could be used to exclude test files from the archive. (Contributed by Christian Tismer in :issue:`19274`.) +The *allowZip64* parameter to :class:`~zipfile.ZipFile` and +:class:`~zipfile.PyZipfile` is now ``True`` by default. (Contributed by +William Mallard in :issue:`17201`.) + CPython Implementation Changes