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diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 32d69bf3ca..90a5852383 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -64,19 +64,19 @@ Some facts and figures: | ``'x'`` or | Create a tarfile exclusively without | | ``'x:'`` | compression. | | | Raise an :exc:`FileExistsError` exception | - | | if it is already exists. | + | | if it already exists. | +------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | ``'x:gz'`` | Create a tarfile with gzip compression. | | | Raise an :exc:`FileExistsError` exception | - | | if it is already exists. | + | | if it already exists. | +------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | ``'x:bz2'`` | Create a tarfile with bzip2 compression. | | | Raise an :exc:`FileExistsError` exception | - | | if it is already exists. | + | | if it already exists. | +------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | ``'x:xz'`` | Create a tarfile with lzma compression. | | | Raise an :exc:`FileExistsError` exception | - | | if it is already exists. | + | | if it already exists. | +------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | ``'a' or 'a:'`` | Open for appending with no compression. The | | | file is created if it does not exist. | @@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ Some facts and figures: .. class:: TarFile - Class for reading and writing tar archives. Do not use this class directly, - better use :func:`tarfile.open` instead. See :ref:`tarfile-objects`. + Class for reading and writing tar archives. Do not use this class directly: + use :func:`tarfile.open` instead. See :ref:`tarfile-objects`. .. function:: is_tarfile(name) @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ be finalized; only the internally used file object will be closed. See the *mode* is either ``'r'`` to read from an existing archive, ``'a'`` to append data to an existing file, ``'w'`` to create a new file overwriting an existing - one or ``'x'`` to create a new file only if it's not exists. + one, or ``'x'`` to create a new file only if it does not already exist. If *fileobj* is given, it is used for reading or writing data. If it can be determined, *mode* is overridden by *fileobj*'s mode. *fileobj* will be used |