Lars Gustäbel added the comment:
That was a design decision. What would be the advantage of having the TarFile
class offer the compression itself?
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Sworddragon added the comment:
The TarFile class provides more options. Alternatively a file object could be
used but this means additional code (and maybe IO overhead).
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Lars Gustäbel added the comment:
You can pass keyword arguments to tarfile.open(), which will be passed to the
TarFile constructor. You can also use pass fileobj arguments to tarfile.open().
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Sworddragon added the comment:
Interesting, after reading the documentation again I would now assume that is
what **kwargs is for.
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Lars Gustäbel added the comment:
Jup. That's it.
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New submission from Sworddragon:
tarfile.open() does support optionally an compression method on the mode
argument in the form of 'filemode[:compression]' but tarfile.TarFile() does
only suport 'a', 'r' and 'w'. Is there a special reason that tarfile.TarFile()
doesn't directly support an
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