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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex index 5f277dafef..96f835f539 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Some facts and figures: \lineii{'r:'}{Open for reading exclusively without compression.} \lineii{'r:gz'}{Open for reading with gzip compression.} \lineii{'r:bz2'}{Open for reading with bzip2 compression.} - \lineii{'a' or 'a:'}{Open for appending with no compression.} + \lineii{'a' or 'a:'}{Open for appending with no compression. The file + is created if it does not exist.} \lineii{'w' or 'w:'}{Open for uncompressed writing.} \lineii{'w:gz'}{Open for gzip compressed writing.} \lineii{'w:bz2'}{Open for bzip2 compressed writing.} @@ -48,8 +49,8 @@ Some facts and figures: avoid this. If a compression method is not supported, \exception{CompressionError} is raised. - If \var{fileobj} is specified, it is used as an alternative to - a file object opened for \var{name}. + If \var{fileobj} is specified, it is used as an alternative to a file + object opened for \var{name}. It is supposed to be at position 0. For special purposes, there is a second format for \var{mode}: \code{'filemode|[compression]'}. \function{open()} will return a @@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ tar archive several times. Each archive member is represented by a If \var{fileobj} is given, it is used for reading or writing data. If it can be determined, \var{mode} is overridden by \var{fileobj}'s mode. + \var{fileobj} will be used from position 0. \begin{notice} \var{fileobj} is not closed, when \class{TarFile} is closed. \end{notice} |