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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-05-10 16:26:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-05-10 16:26:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 38c6a22f38a249d107691a79f2b16a62ba8c73be (patch) | |
| tree | aaa9629e2218d3098330ab19364c6981e36d7377 /Doc | |
| parent | f8d9a97ba2d673ef996e9f0bb0dbe7b29a7a4b1d (diff) | |
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Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes
a couple of issues, notably handling of long file names using the
GNU LONGNAME extension.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex index a49942b..ca6e65a 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex @@ -334,8 +334,12 @@ the file's data itself. Create and return a \class{TarInfo} object from a string buffer. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}{tobuf}{} +\begin{methoddesc}{tobuf}{posix} Create a string buffer from a \class{TarInfo} object. + See \class{TarFile}'s \member{posix} attribute for information + on the \var{posix} argument. It defaults to \constant{False}. + + \versionadded[The \var{posix} parameter]{2.5} \end{methoddesc} A \code{TarInfo} object has the following public data attributes: |