Kaydet (Commit) 9e9a7c3d authored tarafından Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Patch #640236: Better eplain unused data.

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Decompression objects support the following methods, and two attributes:
\begin{memberdesc}{unused_data}
A string which contains any unused data from the last string fed to
this decompression object. If the whole string turned out to contain
compressed data, this is \code{""}, the empty string.
A string which contains any bytes past the end of the compressed data.
That is, this remains \code{""} until the last byte that contains
compression data is available. If the whole string turned out to
contain compressed data, this is \code{""}, the empty string.
The only way to determine where a string of compressed data ends is by
actually decompressing it. This means that when compressed data is
contained part of a larger file, you can only find the end of it by
reading data and feeding it into a decompression object's
\method{decompress} method until the \member{unused_data} attribute is
no longer the empty string.
reading data and feeding it followed by some non-empty string into a
decompression object's \method{decompress} method until the
\member{unused_data} attribute is no longer the empty string.
\end{memberdesc}
\begin{memberdesc}{unconsumed_tail}
A string that contains any data that was not consumed by the last
\method{decompress} call because it exceeded the limit for the
uncompressed data buffer.
uncompressed data buffer. This data has not yet been seen by the zlib
machinery, so you must feed it (possibly with further data
concatenated to it) back to a subsequent \method{decompress} method
call in order to get correct output.
\end{memberdesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[Decompress]{decompress}{string}{\optional{max_length}}
Decompress \var{string}, returning a string containing the
uncompressed data corresponding to at least part of the data in
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