Lars Gustäbel <[email protected]> added the comment:
There is no trivial or backwards-compatible solution to this problem. The way
it is now, there is no alternative to storing all TarInfo objects: there is no
central table of contents in an archive we could use, so we must create our
own. In other words, tarfile does not "burn" memory without a reason.
The problem you encounter is somehow a corner case, fortunately with a simple
workaround:
for tarinfo in tar:
...
tar.members = []
There are two things that I will clearly refuse to do. One thing is to add yet
another option to the TarFile class to switch off caching as this would make
many TarFile methods dysfunctional without the user knowing why. The other
thing is to add an extra non-caching Iterator class.
Sorry, that I have nothing more to offer. Maybe, someone else comes up with a
brilliant idea.
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