[Patches] [ python-Patches-1529811 ] misleading info about tarfile.py's "r|*" mode

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Patches item #1529811, was opened at 2006-07-27 18:22
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Lars Gustäbel (gustaebel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: misleading info about tarfile.py's "r|*" mode

Initial Comment:
In the "New, Improved and Removed Modules" section of
"What's new in Python 2.5", it is said to be new that a
tarfile's compression can be autodetected using mode
"r|*". This is not quite right.

New about the "r|*" mode is that it can autodetect
compression of a tarfile opened in *stream mode* which
was not possible before.

Attached is a patch against whatsnew25.tex in current
SVN HEAD.


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