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 object, because we have no way to detect an archive's encoding. We can either emit a warning if the user passes a unicode object to extract() or we implicitly encode the passed unicode object using TarFile.encoding, so that the os.path.join() succeeds. Unfortunately, I am not entirely sure if there was possibly a rationale behind the current behaviour of extract(). This needs more inspection. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17153> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
