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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 04a54a2..9410e22 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -2453,18 +2453,18 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details. by calling :func:`sys.getprofile` and :func:`sys.gettrace`. (Contributed by Georg Brandl; :issue:`1648`.) -* The :mod:`tarfile` module now supports POSIX.1-2001 (pax) and - POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format tarfiles, in addition to the GNU tar - format that was already supported. The default format - is GNU tar; specify the ``format`` parameter to open a file - using a different format:: +* The :mod:`tarfile` module now supports POSIX.1-2001 (pax) tarfiles in + addition to the POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) and GNU tar formats that were + already supported. The default format is GNU tar; specify the + ``format`` parameter to open a file using a different format:: tar = tarfile.open("output.tar", "w", format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT) - The new ``errors`` parameter specifies an error handling scheme for - character conversions. ``'strict'``, ``'ignore'``, and - ``'replace'`` are the three standard ways Python can handle errors,; + The new ``encoding`` and ``errors`` parameters specify an encoding and + an error handling scheme for character conversions. ``'strict'``, + ``'ignore'``, and ``'replace'`` are the three standard ways Python can + handle errors,; ``'utf-8'`` is a special value that replaces bad characters with their UTF-8 representation. (Character conversions occur because the PAX format supports Unicode filenames, defaulting to UTF-8 encoding.) |