[issue6123] tarfile: opening an empty tar file fails

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: I have checked in a fix for this problem: trunk (r76443) and py3k (r76444). Thank you very much for your report. Sorry that it took that long to get it fixed. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Py

[issue6123] tarfile: opening an empty tar file fails

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: Thanks for the report. Empty archives are perfectly valid and tarfile should be able to read them without error. I will take care of this issue soon. -- assignee: -> lars.gustaebel nosy: +lars.gustaebel ___ Python tr

[issue6123] tarfile: opening an empty tar file fails

Changes by Evan Jones : -- title: tarfile: -> tarfile: opening an empty tar file fails ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue6123] tarfile:

New submission from Evan Jones : tarfile.open() with an empty tar archive fails with a ReadError exception. GNU tar refuses to create empty archives, but tarfile allows it. See the following code which reproduces the error. I used the version of tarfile.py from subversion (revision 72458) with Py