Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment:
If you want to quickly solve this, do like this:
import urllib
import tarfile
tarfile.open(urllib.urlretrieve('http://plugins.supybot-fr.tk/GoodFrench.tar')[0],
mode='r:') # Works
The problem is tarfile is expecting a "file-object" with a tell method for
seeking, whereas urllib2 returns a file-like object, which does have a tell
method. It seems to not have because, the underlying socket._fileobject is not
exposing one (for whatever reason). Let me try to figure out reason for
fixing/closing this bug.
(BTW, http module is relying on .tell() of the socket._fileobject too and I
wonder it did not get noticed earlier because the has not taken that path yet?
Strange!)
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