[issue8958] 2.7rc1 tarfile.py: `bltn_open(targetpath, "wb")` -> IOError: Is a directory

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

On 2010-06-10, at 1:06 PM, Lars Gustäbel wrote:

> Is this problem specific to 2.7rc1

Yes.

> or are other versions affected as well?

Nope, at least ... I know that 2.6 doesn't have this problem.

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