*** tarfile.py.orig	Sun Jan 23 14:26:41 2005
--- tarfile.py	Sun Jan 23 14:29:44 2005
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*** 616,621 ****
--- 616,637 ----
          """Close the file object.
          """
          self.closed = True
+ 
+     def __iter__(self):
+         """Get an iterator over the file object.
+         """
+         if self.closed:
+             raise ValueError("I/O operation on closed file")
+         return self
+ 
+     def next(self):
+         """Get the next item from the file iterator.
+         """
+         result = self.readline()
+         if not result:
+             raise StopIteration
+         return result
+         
  #class ExFileObject
  
  #------------------
*** test_tarfile.py.orig	Sun Jan 23 14:55:53 2005
--- test_tarfile.py	Sun Jan 23 14:34:07 2005
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*** 91,96 ****
--- 91,106 ----
              self.assert_(lines1 == lines2,
                           "_FileObject.readline() does not work correctly")
  
+     def test_iter(self):
+         # Test iteration over ExFileObject.
+         if self.sep != "|":
+             filename = "0-REGTYPE-TEXT"
+             self.tar.extract(filename, dirname())
+             lines1 = file(os.path.join(dirname(), filename), "rU").readlines()
+             lines2 = [line for line in self.tar.extractfile(filename)]
+             self.assert_(lines1 == lines2,
+                          "ExFileObject iteration does not work correctly")
+ 
      def test_seek(self):
          """Test seek() method of _FileObject, incl. random reading.
          """