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  • Committer: James Westby
  • Date: 2010-08-31 14:48:13 UTC
  • mfrom: (49.1.30 tarfile-matchers)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@canonical.com-20100831144813-fmgvk928lv0z0l1g
Merged tarfile-matchers into create-hwpack-skeleton.

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from StringIO import StringIO
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from tarfile import DIRTYPE, TarFile as StandardTarFile, TarInfo
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"""Improvements to the standard library's tarfile module.
 
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In particular this module provides a tarfile.TarFile subclass that aids
 
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in adding paths to the tarfile that aren't present on the filesystem,
 
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with the ability to specify file content as strings, and provide
 
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default values for the mtime, uid, etc. of the created paths.
 
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"""
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@contextmanager
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def writeable_tarfile(backing_file, mode="w", **kwargs):