[issue23453] Opening a stream with tarfile.open() triggers a TypeError: can't concat bytes to str error

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

Using fileobj=sys.stdin.buffer instead should do the trick. The “tarfile” module would expect a binary stream, not a text stream.

Given the documentation currently says, “Use this variant in combination with e.g. sys.stdin, . . .”, I presume that is why you were using plain stdin. The documentation should be clarified.

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assignee:  -> docs at python
components: +Documentation
nosy: +docs at python, vadmium

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