diff -r b898402e75ef Doc/library/tarfile.rst
--- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst	Mon May 19 07:34:08 2014 +0100
+++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst	Wed May 21 13:18:31 2014 +0300
@@ -321,11 +321,15 @@
    returned by :meth:`getmembers`.
 
 
-.. method:: TarFile.list(verbose=True)
+.. method:: TarFile.list(verbose=True, members=None)
 
    Print a table of contents to ``sys.stdout``. If *verbose* is :const:`False`,
    only the names of the members are printed. If it is :const:`True`, output
-   similar to that of :program:`ls -l` is produced.
+   similar to that of :program:`ls -l` is produced. If optional *members* is
+   given, it must be a subset of the list returned by :meth:`getmembers`.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.5
+      Added the *members* parameter.
 
 
 .. method:: TarFile.next()
diff -r b898402e75ef Lib/tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py	Mon May 19 07:34:08 2014 +0100
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py	Wed May 21 13:18:31 2014 +0300
@@ -1841,14 +1841,17 @@
                 tarinfo.devminor = os.minor(statres.st_rdev)
         return tarinfo
 
-    def list(self, verbose=True):
+    def list(self, verbose=True, members=None):
         """Print a table of contents to sys.stdout. If `verbose' is False, only
            the names of the members are printed. If it is True, an `ls -l'-like
-           output is produced.
+           output is produced. `members' is optional and must be a subset of the
+           list returned by getmembers().
         """
         self._check()
 
-        for tarinfo in self:
+        if members is None:
+            members = self
+        for tarinfo in members:
             if verbose:
                 _safe_print(stat.filemode(tarinfo.mode))
                 _safe_print("%s/%s" % (tarinfo.uname or tarinfo.uid,