From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:19:57 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: whatsnew: tarfile cli (#13477).
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~85
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dcbd83321b56f7db31c52ee45147410b8145f864;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

whatsnew: tarfile cli (#13477).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index d2745f5c9f42..a0d1efa4f3e8 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1424,6 +1424,14 @@ to some other callable).  (Contributed by Éric Araujo and Antoine Pitrou in
 :issue:`5845`.)
 
 
+tarfile
+-------
+
+The :mod:`tarfile` module now supports a simple :ref:`tarfile-commandline` when
+called as a script directly or via ``-m``.  This can be used to create and
+extract tarfile archives.  (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`13477`.)
+
+
 textwrap
 --------