Method tobuf

Lib/tarfile.py:1032–1047

Return a tar header as a string of 512 byte blocks.

(self, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, encoding=ENCODING, errors="surrogateescape")

        return info

    def tobuf(self, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, encoding=ENCODING, errors="surrogateescape"):
        """Return a tar header as a string of 512 byte blocks.
        """
        info = self.get_info()
        for name, value in info.items():
            if value is None:
                raise ValueError("%s may not be None" % name)

        if format == USTAR_FORMAT:
            return self.create_ustar_header(info, encoding, errors)
        elif format == GNU_FORMAT:
            return self.create_gnu_header(info, encoding, errors)
        elif format == PAX_FORMAT:
            return self.create_pax_header(info, encoding)
        else:
            raise ValueError("invalid format")

    def create_ustar_header(self, info, encoding, errors):
        """Return the object as a ustar header block.