[issue42079] Why does tarfile.next swallow InvalidHeaderError

Change by Andrei Kulakov : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> tarfile module next() method hides exceptions ___ Python tracker

[issue42079] Why does tarfile.next swallow InvalidHeaderError

New submission from Jan Schatz : I have a tar gz archive that fails to be extracted via tarfile.extractall(). By adding some debug code I found that at some point InvalidHeaderError is raised inside tarfile.next(). But the function just swallows the exception, because the offset isn't 0 (see