TarInfo.isblk() Return True if it is a block device.

TarInfo.gid Group ID of the user who originally stored this member.

TarInfo.gname Group name.

classmethod TarInfo.frombuf(buf, encoding, errors) Create and return a TarInfo object from string buffer buf. Raises HeaderError if the buffer is invalid.

class tarfile.TarInfo(name="") Create a TarInfo object.

classmethod TarFile.open(...) Alternative constructor. The tarfile.open() function is actually a shortcut to this classmethod.

TarFile.list(verbose=True, *, members=None) Print a table of contents to sys.stdout. If verbose is False, only the names of the members are printed. If it is True, output similar to that of ls -l is produced. If optional members is given, it must be a subset of the list returned by getmembers(). Changed in version 3.5: Added the members parameter.

TarFile.gettarinfo(name=None, arcname=None, fileobj=None) Create a TarInfo object from the result of os.stat() or equivalent on an existing file. The file is either named by name, or specified as a file object fileobj with a file descriptor. If given, arcname specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive, otherwise, the name is taken from fileobj’s name attribute, or the name argument. The name should be a text string. You can modify some of the TarInfo’s attributes before you ad

TarFile.next() Return the next member of the archive as a TarInfo object, when TarFile is opened for reading. Return None if there is no more available.

TarFile.extractfile(member) Extract a member from the archive as a file object. member may be a filename or a TarInfo object. If member is a regular file or a link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. Otherwise, None is returned. Changed in version 3.3: Return an io.BufferedReader object.