[ python-Bugs-1706850 ] tarfile fails in 2.5.1 (NoneType has no ...)

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Bugs item #1706850, was opened at 2007-04-24 19:53
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Thomas Leonard (tal197)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: tarfile fails in 2.5.1 (NoneType has no ...)

Initial Comment:
In Python 2.5.1's tarfile.py, we have:

def __init__(self, name=None, mode="r", fileobj=None):
        self.name = os.path.abspath(name)

If name is None (e.g. extracting from a stream) we get e.g.:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tarfile.py", line 1168, in open
    _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize))
  File "tarfile.py", line 1047, in __init__
    self.name = os.path.abspath(name)
  File "posixpath.py", line 402, in abspath
    if not isabs(path):
  File "posixpath.py", line 49, in isabs
    return s.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

It works with Python 2.3.6, 2.4.4 and 2.5.0, but not 2.5.1.

(discovered by Zero Install unit-tests)

Thanks,

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