I stumbled uppon this and find it somewhat odd: some class methods of TarFile and TarInfo do not appears in either the online documentation or search while they have a doc string:
http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=gzopen http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html?highlight=tarfile#tarfile.TarFile See script at the end for list of class methods. Is this "by design" or is there some an odd bug in doc generation lurking around? This somehow seem to be specific to module tarfile. Fraction classmethod from_float() is available in the documentation and found by a search for example... --- Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tarfile >>> help( tarfile.TarFile.gzopen ) Help on method gzopen in module tarfile: gzopen(cls, name, mode='r', fileobj=None, compresslevel=9, **kwargs) method of __builtin__.type instance Open gzip compressed tar archive name for reading or writing. Appending is not allowed. >>> help( tarfile.TarFile.bz2open ) Help on method bz2open in module tarfile: bz2open(cls, name, mode='r', fileobj=None, compresslevel=9, **kwargs) method of __builtin__.type instance Open bzip2 compressed tar archive name for reading or writing. Appending is not allowed. >>> help( tarfile.TarInfo.create_pax_global_header ) Help on method create_pax_global_header in module tarfile: create_pax_global_header(cls, pax_headers) method of __builtin__.type instance Return the object as a pax global header block sequence. Baptiste.
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