diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 8d10db8f2c2921..add9e8ac2cb587 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -1353,6 +1353,9 @@ Command-line options Examples -------- +Reading examples +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + How to extract an entire tar archive to the current working directory:: import tarfile @@ -1375,6 +1378,23 @@ a generator function instead of a list:: tar.extractall(members=py_files(tar)) tar.close() +How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information:: + + import tarfile + tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz") + for tarinfo in tar: + print(tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is ", end="") + if tarinfo.isreg(): + print("a regular file.") + elif tarinfo.isdir(): + print("a directory.") + else: + print("something else.") + tar.close() + +Writing examples +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames:: import tarfile @@ -1390,19 +1410,15 @@ The same example using the :keyword:`with` statement:: for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]: tar.add(name) -How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information:: +How to create and write an archive to stdout using +:data:`sys.stdout.buffer ` in the *fileobj* parameter +in :meth:`TarFile.add`:: - import tarfile - tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz") - for tarinfo in tar: - print(tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is ", end="") - if tarinfo.isreg(): - print("a regular file.") - elif tarinfo.isdir(): - print("a directory.") - else: - print("something else.") - tar.close() + import sys + import tarfile + with tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "w|gz", fileobj=sys.stdout.buffer) as tar: + for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]: + tar.add(name) How to create an archive and reset the user information using the *filter* parameter in :meth:`TarFile.add`:: pFad - Phonifier reborn

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