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| author | CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM> | 2019-04-07 04:47:49 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2019-04-07 04:47:49 (GMT) |
| commit | 89a894403cfa880d7f9d1d67070f61456d14cbde (patch) | |
| tree | ec5675bbc8f5b7b3eff5fbc0bc91e87660f0c483 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 2ea8099523581cf2ecc060831a53debb57ff98ee (diff) | |
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bpo-30661: Improve docs for tarfile pax change and effect on shutil (GH-12635)
The shutil archive creation helpers use the default tarfile format,
so that API is also switching to use `pax` by default.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 0fc4d77..ac20ee3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -300,6 +300,11 @@ shutil :func:`shutil.copytree` now accepts a new ``dirs_exist_ok`` keyword argument. (Contributed by Josh Bronson in :issue:`20849`.) +:func:`shutil.make_archive` now defaults to the modern pax (POSIX.1-2001) +format for new archives to improve portability and standards conformance, +inherited from the corresponding change to the :mod:`tarfile` module. +(Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach in :issue:`30661`.) + ssl --- |