New submission from Parth Malwankar <parth.malwan...@gmail.com>:
If any directory higher up in the hierarchy contains unicode chars,
tarfile.open fails with UnicodeDecodeError. Attached script reproduces this
error.
[tmp]% python tarfilefail.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tarfilefail.py", line 9, in <module>
tarfile.open(file_name, 'w')
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1682, in open
return cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1692, in taropen
return cls(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1527, in __init__
self.name = os.path.abspath(name) if name else None
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 338, in abspath
path = join(os.getcwd(), path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 70, in join
path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 17:
ordinal not in range(128)
[tmp]%
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files: tarfilefail.py
messages: 103117
nosy: parthm
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile.open does fails with UnicodeDecodeError if parent dir is unicode
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16922/tarfilefail.py
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