https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/081187f169556fb1b2d6a9b96f7b7e509f6ad985 commit: 081187f169556fb1b2d6a9b96f7b7e509f6ad985 branch: 3.15 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2026-05-23T00:17:51+03:00 summary:
[3.15] gh-82907: Document mtime=0 for reproducible tarfile gzip output (GH-150269) (GH-150271) (cherry picked from commit 9df2b6ccc719b0bc0167da65b72b57f9da39398b) Co-authored-by: Omkar Kabde <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/tarfile.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index 6f1e01cf5aa6ee..9b9783d8e58013 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ Some facts and figures: For modes ``'w:gz'`` and ``'w|gz'``, :func:`tarfile.open` accepts the keyword argument *mtime* to create a gzip archive header with that mtime. By - default, the mtime is set to the time of creation of the archive. + default, the mtime is set to the time of creation of the archive. Use + *mtime* ``0`` to generate a compressed stream that does not depend on + creation time, for reproducible output. For special purposes, there is a second format for *mode*: ``'filemode|[compression]'``. :func:`tarfile.open` will return a :class:`TarFile` _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
