Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> added the comment:

Aside: why is the original exception ignored, and instead a generic IOError is 
thrown? Why not use one of the exceptions inheriting `TarError`, so that 
application code can reliably catch these errors?

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