[Python-3000] Py3k: error during 'make install' in py3k-struni ?

[Christian Heimes]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Afther checking out the py3k-struni branch, 'make install' issued this:
>>
>> Compiling /usr/local/python/3.0/lib/python3.0/test/test_tarfile.py ...
>> *** SyntaxError: ('expected string, bytes found',
>> ('/usr/local/python/3.0/lib/python3.0/test/test_tarfile.py', 0, 0,
>> None))
>>
>> If this is expected to fail, please forget this.

It should not faild but we know that it is failing. The module isn't
easy to fix either. I spent about an hour on tarfile.py without any
luck. It's a beast and seems to be rather old style code from the Python
1.x days.

Christian