New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: 1. Find an OSX 10.5.8 machine 2. wget http://hntool.googlecode.com/files/hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz 3. $ python2.7 -c "import tarfile as T; t=T.open('hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz'); t.extractall()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2046, in extractall self.extract(tarinfo, path) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name)) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2159, in _extract_member self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2198, in makefile target = bltn_open(targetpath, "wb") IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: './hntool-0.1.1/hntool'
... Note that, when extracted open via other tools, hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz contains within it ... both a directory named "HnTool" (note the case) and a file called "hntool". ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 107419 nosy: srid priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: 2.7rc1 tarfile.py: `bltn_open(targetpath, "wb")` -> IOError: Is a directory type: crash versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8958> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
