Christian Theune added the comment: Not being an export on tar at all, but I tried getting anything working without tell() and seek() but couldn't.
The code reads as if its supposed to support some tar formats that do not require seeking, but that would be rather hard to predict on a file-by-file basis, I guess. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10362> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com