Thomas Guettler added the comment: I uploaded a broken tar for testing:
tguettler@aptguettler:~/tmp ===> LANG=C tar -xf tar_which_is_cut.tar tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tguettler@aptguettler:~/tmp ===> python Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tarfile >>> tarfile.TarFile('tar_which_is_cut.tar', errorlevel=2).extractall() >>> (Sad, no error) ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39531/tar_which_is_cut.tar _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24259> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com