[Python-checkins] r66513 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
lars.gustaebel
python-checkins at python.org
Fri Sep 19 14:39:23 CEST 2008
Author: lars.gustaebel
Date: Fri Sep 19 14:39:23 2008
New Revision: 66513
Log:
Correct information about the tarfile module.
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst Fri Sep 19 14:39:23 2008
@@ -2453,18 +2453,18 @@
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.)
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