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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/tarfile.py')
| -rwxr-xr-x | Lib/tarfile.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py index 1fae29430f..e42279470d 100755 --- a/Lib/tarfile.py +++ b/Lib/tarfile.py @@ -2093,9 +2093,10 @@ class TarFile(object): def extractfile(self, member): """Extract a member from the archive as a file object. `member' may be - a filename or a TarInfo object. If `member' is a regular file or a - link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. Otherwise, None is - returned. + a filename or a TarInfo object. If `member' is a regular file or + a link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. For all other + existing members, None is returned. If `member' does not appear + in the archive, KeyError is raised. """ self._check("r") |