Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset a486b673b57f by R David Murray in branch '3.4':
#14056: Small improvements to the tarfile documentation.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a486b673b57f
New changeset ab8282b2 by R David Murray in branch 'default':
Merge: #14056: Small
Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 378f3d237ac2 by R David Murray in branch '2.7':
#14056: Small improvements to the tarfile documentation.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/378f3d237ac2
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R. David Murray added the comment:
Committed Éric's patch.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution: - fixed
stage: commit review - resolved
status: open - closed
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de added the comment:
a) Good point, a case of sloppy naming.
b) IMO a table is a tad too much. The amount of different compression methods
is still quite small. My patch proposes a simpler approach.
c) A link to shutil is very useful.
BTW, thanks for the effort.
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
I like your idea. I’ll keep the table for shutil, which has more things to say
(description, file extensions, etc.).
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24609/misc-tarfile-doc-changes-3.2.diff
New submission from Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org:
A few things to improve in tarfile’s doc:
a) I found the heading “The following variables are available on module level”
strange; does “variable” mean that users are able to edit tarfile.ENCODING to
control the default encoding used? The
