From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:07:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add tarfile module
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2553
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=674b0bfde6895cbc5039f2fc9377dec1371f987b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add tarfile module
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 2a08c495e8c4..9908881ee233 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -1473,6 +1473,10 @@ Sockets Library (SSL) support.
 \item The value of the C \constant{PYTHON_API_VERSION} macro is now exposed
 at the Python level as \code{sys.api_version}.
 
+\item The new \module{tarfile} module 
+allows reading from and writing to \command{tar}-format archive files.
+(Contributed by Lars Gust\"abel.)
+
 \item The new \module{textwrap} module contains functions for wrapping
 strings containing paragraphs of text.  The \function{wrap(\var{text},
 \var{width})} function takes a string and returns a list containing