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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/tarfile.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 92e9df7..86dd33d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -376,15 +376,12 @@ be finalized; only the internally used file object will be closed. See the .. method:: TarFile.extractfile(member) Extract a member from the archive as a file object. *member* may be a filename - or a :class:`TarInfo` object. If *member* is a regular file, a :term:`file-like - object` is returned. If *member* is a link, a file-like object is constructed from - the link's target. If *member* is none of the above, :const:`None` is returned. + or a :class:`TarInfo` object. If *member* is a regular file or a link, an + :class:`io.BufferedReader` object is returned. Otherwise, :const:`None` is + returned. - .. note:: - - The file-like object is read-only. It provides the methods - :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`seek`, :meth:`tell`, - and :meth:`close`, and also supports iteration over its lines. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + Return an :class:`io.BufferedReader` object. .. method:: TarFile.add(name, arcname=None, recursive=True, exclude=None, *, filter=None) |