Gustavo Niemeyer gust...@niemeyer.net added the comment:
Indeed, nice use of the time machine! :-)
Thanks Lars!
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Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de added the comment:
This is a duplicate of issue6054 which has been fixed in Python 2.7 (r74571).
(Hi, Gustavo!)
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nosy: +lars.gustaebel
resolution: - duplicate
status: open - closed
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Free Ekanayaka f...@64studio.com added the comment:
Thanks for the prompt reply! Cool to know this is already fixed.
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New submission from Free Ekanayaka f...@64studio.com:
The tar format allows to have memeber files whose path has a leading ./:
$ echo foo
$ tar cf bar.tar ./foo
$ tar tf bar.tar
./foo
However the tarfile module doesn't allow this:
from StringIO import StringIO
from tarfile import TarInfo,
Gustavo Niemeyer gust...@niemeyer.net added the comment:
Please note that even if unpacking such a tar might be semantically equivalent
to a version which strips out the ./ prefix, it should be possible to create
a tar with valid path names such as these.
In the case of debs, for instance,
