Tom Lynn added the comment:
I think the default has to be 0 for consistency with how other empty numeric
fields are handled.
In theory spaces and NULs are supposed to be equivalent terminators in numeric
fields, but I've just noticed that plexus-archiver is also using leading spaces
rather than leading zeros (against the spec), e.g. ' 10422\x00 '. tarfile
currently supports this, which I think is good, so I think the right approach
is to lstrip(' ') fields and then treat space as a terminator.
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