[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

insomniacslk added the comment: The documentation should be updated to suggest that a custom file-like object can be passed to have custom compressors then. However this sounds very hacky and definitely not a feature that can be easily passed to the user. Hence the reason for a cleaner,

[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: You can pass a custom file object that implements a custom compression to the TarFile constructor. I don't see a need in other way. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

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[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: Adding serhiy.storchaka who recently made changes to tarfile. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___

[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: Adding lars.gustaebel who is listed as maintainer for tarfile. -- nosy: +Mariatta, lars.gustaebel ___ Python tracker

[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

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[issue31020] Add support for custom compressor in tarfile

New submission from insomniacslk: Tarfile would benefit from exposing custom compressors. At the moment the only way to use something that is not gzip/bzip/lzma is to separate the archiving and compression steps. A possible approach is to pass a custom compression function to