New submission from Henrik ravn <hra...@gmail.com>: When doing the following with python 2.6.2 on Windows Vista SP1:
>>> import tarfile >>> tf = tarfile.TarFile("sometarfile.tar.bz2") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> tf = tarfile.TarFile("sometarfile.tar.bz2") File "C:\Python26\lib\tarfile.py", line 1570, in __init__ self.firstmember = self.next() File "C:\Python26\lib\tarfile.py", line 2322, in next raise ReadError(str(e)) ReadError: invalid header This would, of course, suggest that the file was corrupted, but all archiving tools (tar, winrar and 7-zip) handle the file without problems. Also: >>> tf = tarfile.TarFile("sometarfile.tar.bz2", "r:bz2") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module> tf = tarfile.TarFile("e:/mono/mono-2.4.2.2.tar.bz2", "r:bz2") File "C:\Python26\lib\tarfile.py", line 1510, in __init__ raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'a' or 'w'") ValueError: mode must be 'r', 'a' or 'w' which suggests that the compression support is not compiled into the tarfile module. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 90724 nosy: hravnx severity: normal status: open title: tarfile module missing decompression support? type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6524> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com