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Correct information about the tarfile module.

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Lars Gustäbel 2008-09-19 12:39:23 +00:00
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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.)