[New-bugs-announce] [issue7693] tarfile.extractall can't have unicode extraction path

[Peter Bienstman]

New submission from Peter Bienstman <Peter.Bienstman at UGent.be>:

import tarfile

fname = unichr(40960) + u"a.ogg"

f = file(fname, "w")
f.write("A")
f.close()
        
tar_pipe = tarfile.open("test.tar", mode="w|",
    format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT)
tar_pipe.add(fname)
tar_pipe.close()

tar_pipe = tarfile.open("test.tar")
tar_pipe.extractall(u".") # Just "." as string works fine.

This gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "a.py", line 15, in <module>
    tar_pipe.extractall(u".") # Just "." as string works fine.
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 2031, in extractall
    self.extract(tarinfo, path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 2068, in extract
    self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 70, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 97717
nosy: pbienst
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile.extractall can't have unicode extraction path
type: crash
versions: Python 2.6

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