Larry Hastings added the comment: Huh. tar *can* infer it from the data itself. On the other hand, it chooses explicitly not to.
% cat ~/Downloads/Python-3.3.0.tar.bz2| tar xvf - tar: Archive is compressed. Use -j option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now % cat ~/Downloads/Python-3.3.0.tgz| tar xvf - tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I guess "tar" knows explicit is better than implicit too ;-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13477> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
