George Notaras added the comment:
Thanks for the quick fix and the workaround.
You are right about position 756. I hadn't spent enough time studying
the ''ustar'' format.
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New submission from George Notaras:
Assume the following situation:
- a healthy and uncompressed tar file: a.tar
- the metadata of the 1st and second files within the archive start at
positions 0 and 756 (realistic example values)
I partially damage 200 bytes of metadata (byte range 0-500) of
George Notaras added the comment:
Indeed, I have downloaded the latest tarfile module from svn and it
works as expected. I should have done this in the first place.
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New submission from George Notaras:
Assume a healthy uncompressed tar file: a.tar
When trying to open the tarfile using a fileobject, there is always an
exception:
>>> f_raw = open("a.tar", "rb")
>>> import tarfile
>>> f_tar = tarfile.open(mode=&
