From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:05:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #5821: add some capabilities of TarFile's file-like object.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1403
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf5608df8180875528f09afff00e9f898cc85cc0;p=python

#5821: add some capabilities of TarFile's file-like object.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
index aabd6410bf..29968396e0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst
@@ -384,8 +384,9 @@ object, see :ref:`tarinfo-objects` for details.
 
    .. note::
 
-      The file-like object is read-only and provides the following methods:
-      :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`seek`, :meth:`tell`.
+      The file-like object is read-only.  It provides the methods
+      :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`, :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`seek`, :meth:`tell`,
+      and :meth:`close`, and also supports iteration over its lines.
 
 
 .. method:: TarFile.add(name, arcname=None, recursive=True, exclude=None)