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Document that zipfile's pwd parameter is a bytes object
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JustAnotherArchivist committed Dec 13, 2022
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Access a member of the archive as a binary file-like object. *name*
can be either the name of a file within the archive or a :class:`ZipInfo`
object. The *mode* parameter, if included, must be ``'r'`` (the default)
or ``'w'``. *pwd* is the password used to decrypt encrypted ZIP files.
or ``'w'``. *pwd* is the password used to decrypt encrypted ZIP files as a
:class:`bytes` object.

:meth:`~ZipFile.open` is also a context manager and therefore supports the
:keyword:`with` statement::
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must be its full name or a :class:`ZipInfo` object. Its file information is
extracted as accurately as possible. *path* specifies a different directory
to extract to. *member* can be a filename or a :class:`ZipInfo` object.
*pwd* is the password used for encrypted files.
*pwd* is the password used for encrypted files as a :class:`bytes`.

Returns the normalized path created (a directory or new file).

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Extract all members from the archive to the current working directory. *path*
specifies a different directory to extract to. *members* is optional and must
be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`namelist`. *pwd* is the password
used for encrypted files.
used for encrypted files as a :class:`bytes` object.

.. warning::

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.. method:: ZipFile.setpassword(pwd)

Set *pwd* as default password to extract encrypted files.
Set *pwd* (a :class:`bytes` object) as default password to extract encrypted files.


.. method:: ZipFile.read(name, pwd=None)

Return the bytes of the file *name* in the archive. *name* is the name of the
file in the archive, or a :class:`ZipInfo` object. The archive must be open for
read or append. *pwd* is the password used for encrypted files and, if specified,
it will override the default password set with :meth:`setpassword`. Calling
:meth:`read` on a ZipFile that uses a compression method other than
read or append. *pwd* is the password used for encrypted files as a :class:`bytes`
object and, if specified, overrides the default password set with :meth:`setpassword`.
Calling :meth:`read` on a ZipFile that uses a compression method other than
:const:`ZIP_STORED`, :const:`ZIP_DEFLATED`, :const:`ZIP_BZIP2` or
:const:`ZIP_LZMA` will raise a :exc:`NotImplementedError`. An error will also
be raised if the corresponding compression module is not available.
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