[issue16601] Restarting iteration over tarfile continues from where it left off.

Michael Birtwell added the comment: Sorry about the delay in the contributor form. Things got in the way then I completely forgot about it. It's done now. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16601

[issue16601] Restarting iteration over tarfile continues from where it left off.

New submission from Michael Birtwell: If you partially iterate over a tarfile then try and restart iteration of that tarfile it will continue from where it left off rather than restarting from the beginning. I've only tried this with the tarfile implementation in python 2.7 but the 3.x code

[issue16601] Restarting iteration over tarfile continues from where it left off.

Michael Birtwell added the comment: Embarrassingly as soon as I uploaded that patch I found a problem with it. I hadn't taken in to account the special case for the first member. Here's a replacement patch -- type: - behavior Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28202/fix-tarfile

[issue16601] Restarting iteration over tarfile continues from where it left off.

Michael Birtwell added the comment: Here's a patch on the tarfile's unittest module. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28203/test-tarfile-restart-iteration.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16601