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Author martin.panter
Recipients David.Nesting, docs@python, lars.gustaebel, martin.panter, wichert
Date 2016-04-29.04:53:15
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David, if you are still interested, I think specific suggestions or patches would be welcome (even if Lars assigned this to himself five years ago). I also like the idea of separate low-level and random access layers (I also thought of this).

One other problem with the documentation of this mode is it points to the Examples section, but it is not obvious why. The only example specific to non-seeking mode was removed in r63411, apparently because it was obsolete:

The _only_ way to extract an uncompressed tar stream from “sys.stdin”:

tar = tarfile.open(mode="r|", fileobj=sys.stdin)
for tarinfo in tar:
    tar.extract(tarinfo)
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2016-04-29 04:53:15martin.pantersetmessageid: <1461905595.86.0.859600494704.issue10436@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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