[New-bugs-announce] [issue8701] tarfile: first character of member names doubled

[Poor Yorick]

New submission from Poor Yorick <pooryorick at users.sourceforge.net>:

In the following file, for python 2.6.4, tarfile.list doubles the first character of each member name:

http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/Archive/time/time_1.0.tar.gz

gnu tar handles the file correctly

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 105609
nosy: pooryorick
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile: first character of member names doubled
versions: Python 2.6

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