Merged revisions 56020-56124 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r56037 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-19 05:33:20 -0700 (Tue, 19 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1739659: don't slice dict.keys() in pydoc.
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  r56060 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-21 13:00:02 -0700 (Thu, 21 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Regenerate to add True, False, None.
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  r56069 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-21 22:31:56 -0700 (Thu, 21 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Get the doctest working again after adding None, True, and False as kewyords.
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  r56070 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-21 23:25:33 -0700 (Thu, 21 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Add space to error message.
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  r56071 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-21 23:40:04 -0700 (Thu, 21 Jun 2007) | 6 lines

  Get pybench working, primarily
   * Use print function
   * Stop using string module
   * Use sorted instead of assuming dict methods return lists
   * Convert range result to a list
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  r56089 | collin.winter | 2007-06-26 10:31:48 -0700 (Tue, 26 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Fix AttributeError in distutils/dir_util.py.
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  r56124 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-29 18:04:31 -0700 (Fri, 29 Jun 2007) | 30 lines

  Merged revisions 56014-56123 via svnmerge from
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    r56019 | lars.gustaebel | 2007-06-18 04:42:11 -0700 (Mon, 18 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Added exclude keyword argument to the TarFile.add() method.
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    r56023 | lars.gustaebel | 2007-06-18 13:05:55 -0700 (Mon, 18 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Added missing \versionchanged tag for the new exclude
    parameter.
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    r56038 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-19 05:36:00 -0700 (Tue, 19 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1737864: allow empty message in logging format routines.
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    r56040 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-19 05:38:20 -0700 (Tue, 19 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1739115: make shutil.rmtree docs clear wrt. file deletion.
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    r56084 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-25 08:21:23 -0700 (Mon, 25 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1742901: document None behavior of shlex.split.
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    r56091 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-27 07:09:56 -0700 (Wed, 27 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix a variable name in winreg docs.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 94dac98..92daa5a 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1925,18 +1925,24 @@ class TarFile(object):
                     print("link to", tarinfo.linkname, end=' ')
             print()
 
-    def add(self, name, arcname=None, recursive=True):
+    def add(self, name, arcname=None, recursive=True, exclude=None):
         """Add the file `name' to the archive. `name' may be any type of file
            (directory, fifo, symbolic link, etc.). If given, `arcname'
            specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive.
            Directories are added recursively by default. This can be avoided by
-           setting `recursive' to False.
+           setting `recursive' to False. `exclude' is a function that should
+           return True for each filename to be excluded.
         """
         self._check("aw")
 
         if arcname is None:
             arcname = name
 
+        # Exclude pathnames.
+        if exclude is not None and exclude(name):
+            self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Excluded %r" % name)
+            return
+
         # Skip if somebody tries to archive the archive...
         if self.name is not None and os.path.abspath(name) == self.name:
             self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Skipped %r" % name)
@@ -1949,7 +1955,7 @@ class TarFile(object):
                 if arcname == ".":
                     arcname = ""
                 for f in os.listdir(name):
-                    self.add(f, os.path.join(arcname, f))
+                    self.add(f, os.path.join(arcname, f), recursive, exclude)
             return
 
         self._dbg(1, name)
@@ -1971,7 +1977,7 @@ class TarFile(object):
             self.addfile(tarinfo)
             if recursive:
                 for f in os.listdir(name):
-                    self.add(os.path.join(name, f), os.path.join(arcname, f))
+                    self.add(os.path.join(name, f), os.path.join(arcname, f), recursive, exclude)
 
         else:
             self.addfile(tarinfo)