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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index f4e83d6..7ba29d4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -116,10 +116,12 @@ Some facts and figures: ``'filemode|[compression]'``. :func:`tarfile.open` will return a :class:`TarFile` object that processes its data as a stream of blocks. No random seeking will be done on the file. If given, *fileobj* may be any object that has a - :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.read` or :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.write` method (depending on the *mode*). *bufsize* - specifies the blocksize and defaults to ``20 * 512`` bytes. Use this variant - in combination with e.g. ``sys.stdin``, a socket :term:`file object` or a tape - device. However, such a :class:`TarFile` object is limited in that it does + :meth:`~io.RawIOBase.read` or :meth:`~io.RawIOBase.write` method + (depending on the *mode*) that works with bytes. + *bufsize* specifies the blocksize and defaults to ``20 * 512`` bytes. + Use this variant in combination with e.g. ``sys.stdin.buffer``, a socket + :term:`file object` or a tape device. + However, such a :class:`TarFile` object is limited in that it does not allow random access, see :ref:`tar-examples`. The currently possible modes: |