TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
(will backport to 2.5)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5ba18bc..f9a3a0c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@
Library
-------
+- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
+ the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
+
- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
with Python 3000.