Subj : Archive.extract() with max_files parameter
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 02 2022 05:20 pm

  Re: Archive.extract() with max_files parameter
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Aug 02 2022 09:29 am

 > Hi DM,
 >
 > Today I was using the Archive class to extract exactly one file from a zip
 > file, and I'm a little confused on the exception throwing behavior regarding
 > the max_files parameter.  When calling extract(), I gave it a filename
 > pattern and expected exactly 1 file to be extracted, so I also gave a
 > max_files argument as 1.  It extracted the one file, but it threw an
 > exception with the error "Error: maximum number of files (1) extracted
 > (after extracting 1 item successfully)".
 >
 > Should that be an error condition to throw an exception? I expected 1 file
 > to be extracted, and that file was extracted successfully.  If I specify
 > max_files as 2, then it doesn't throw an exception.

I can see how that would be surprising behavior. I just committed a change. Let me know how that works for you.
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