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Title: tarfile file names under win32
Type: Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.5
process
Status: closed Resolution:
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Assigned To: lars.gustaebel Nosy List: ggenellina, indi4source, lars.gustaebel
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2007-03-22 07:12 by indi4source, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg31615 - (view) Author: ralf (indi4source) Date: 2007-03-22 07:12 
the tarfile module uses normpath() to store the file name in the archive. Under win32 this results in pathes with backslashes and possible a leading "\". This confuses the  unix tar command.

I suppose the following commands instead of 
just normpath():
path = normpath (path)
path = path.replace ("\\", "/")
path = path.lstrip ("/")
msg31616 - (view) Author: Gabriel Genellina (ggenellina) Date: 2007-03-23 10:36 
tarfile already attempts to manage backslashes well, using os.path.normpath(path).replace(os.sep, "/")
Can you provide a small script demonstrating the failure?
msg31617 - (view) Author: ralf (indi4source) Date: 2007-03-27 08:25 
Sorry, I was using an derived class of TarFile and didn't realize that tarfile has defined its own
normpath() function.
When using tarfile.normpath() in my class it is working, too.
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