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authorAndrey Doroschenko <dorosch.github.io@yandex.ru>2020-10-20 14:05:01 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-10-20 14:05:01 (GMT)
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bpo-39693: mention KeyError in tarfile extractfile documentation (GH-18639)
Co-authored-by: Andrey Darascheka <andrei.daraschenka@leverx.com>
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diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
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@@ -2093,9 +2093,10 @@ class TarFile(object):
def extractfile(self, member):
"""Extract a member from the archive as a file object. `member' may be
- a filename or a TarInfo object. If `member' is a regular file or a
- link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. Otherwise, None is
- returned.
+ a filename or a TarInfo object. If `member' is a regular file or
+ a link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. For all other
+ existing members, None is returned. If `member' does not appear
+ in the archive, KeyError is raised.
"""
self._check("r")