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@@ -32,12 +32,18 @@ to create a gzipped tarball and a zip file. The available formats are:
| ``bztar`` | bzip2'ed tar file | |
| | (:file:`.tar.bz2`) | |
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
+| ``xztar`` | xz'ed tar file | |
+| | (:file:`.tar.xz`) | |
++-----------+-------------------------+---------+
| ``ztar`` | compressed tar file | \(4) |
| | (:file:`.tar.Z`) | |
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
| ``tar`` | tar file (:file:`.tar`) | |
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
+.. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ Added support for the ``xztar`` format.
+
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@@ -54,7 +60,7 @@ Notes:
requires the :program:`compress` program. Notice that this format is now
pending for deprecation and will be removed in the future versions of Python.
-When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``ztar`` or
+When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``xztar``, ``ztar`` or
``tar``), under Unix you can specify the ``owner`` and ``group`` names
that will be set for each member of the archive.