A TarInfo object represents one member in a TarFile. Aside from storing all required attributes of a file (like file type, size, time, permissions, owner etc.), it provides some useful methods to determine its type. It does not contain the file's data itself.
TarInfo objects are returned by TarFile's methods
getmember(), getmembers() and gettarinfo().
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A TarInfo object has the following public data attributes:
REGTYPE, AREGTYPE, LNKTYPE, SYMTYPE, DIRTYPE, FIFOTYPE, CONTTYPE,
CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE, GNUTYPE_SPARSE.
To determine the type of a TarInfo object more conveniently, use
the is_*() methods below.
A TarInfo object also provides some convenient query methods:
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True if the Tarinfo object is a regular file.
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True if it is a directory.
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True if it is a symbolic link.
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True if it is a hard link.
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True if it is a character device.
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True if it is a block device.
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True if it is a FIFO.
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True if it is one of character device, block device or FIFO.
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