[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

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[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

Zackery Spytz added the comment: Python 2.7 is no longer supported, so I think this issue should be closed. -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

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[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

Vinay Sajip added the comment: Could you point to some suitable projects from GitHub whose tarballs fail on 3.5 / 3.6? My script in the first post, with the replacing of "unicode(...)" with "str(...)" and my original failing archive, works on Python 3.5 and 3.6 on Linux. Which platform have yo

[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

Vadim Markovtsev added the comment: Relevant issue in pip: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/710 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

Vadim Markovtsev added the comment: So... The bug persists in 3.5 ad 3.6. It prevents from e.g. unpacking tarballs coming from GitHub repos with Unicode file names. -- nosy: +Vadim Markovtsev2 ___ Python tracker _

[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: IIRC, tarfile under 2.7 has never been explicitly unicode-safe, support for unicode objects is heterogeneous at best. The obvious work-around is to work exclusively with str objects. What we can't do is to decode the utf-8 pathname from the archive to a unicode

[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

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[issue17153] tarfile extract fails when Unicode in pathname

New submission from Vinay Sajip: The attached file failing.tar.gz contains a path with UTF-8-encoded Unicode. This causes extractall() to fail, but only when the destination path is Unicode. That's because it leads to a implicit str->unicode conversion using ASCII. Test script: import shutil