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-rwxr-xr-xLib/tarfile.py17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 7781a43..df4e41f 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ class TarFile(object):
def __init__(self, name=None, mode="r", fileobj=None, format=None,
tarinfo=None, dereference=None, ignore_zeros=None, encoding=None,
errors="surrogateescape", pax_headers=None, debug=None,
- errorlevel=None, copybufsize=None):
+ errorlevel=None, copybufsize=None, stream=False):
"""Open an (uncompressed) tar archive `name'. `mode' is either 'r' to
read from an existing archive, 'a' to append data to an existing
file or 'w' to create a new file overwriting an existing one. `mode'
@@ -1665,6 +1665,8 @@ class TarFile(object):
self.name = os.path.abspath(name) if name else None
self.fileobj = fileobj
+ self.stream = stream
+
# Init attributes.
if format is not None:
self.format = format
@@ -2631,7 +2633,9 @@ class TarFile(object):
break
if tarinfo is not None:
- self.members.append(tarinfo)
+ # if streaming the file we do not want to cache the tarinfo
+ if not self.stream:
+ self.members.append(tarinfo)
else:
self._loaded = True
@@ -2682,11 +2686,12 @@ class TarFile(object):
def _load(self):
"""Read through the entire archive file and look for readable
- members.
+ members. This should not run if the file is set to stream.
"""
- while self.next() is not None:
- pass
- self._loaded = True
+ if not self.stream:
+ while self.next() is not None:
+ pass
+ self._loaded = True
def _check(self, mode=None):
"""Check if TarFile is still open, and if the operation's mode