[issue8958] 2.7rc1 tarfile.py: `bltn_open(targetpath, "wb")` -> IOError: Is a directory

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:

1. Find an OSX 10.5.8 machine 
2. wget http://hntool.googlecode.com/files/hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz
3. $ python2.7 -c "import tarfile as T; t=T.open('hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz'); t.extractall()"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2046, in extractall
    self.extract(tarinfo, path)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract
    self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2159, in _extract_member
    self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2198, in makefile
    target = bltn_open(targetpath, "wb")
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: './hntool-0.1.1/hntool'

...


Note that, when extracted open via other tools, hntool-0.1.1.tar.gz contains within it ... both a directory named "HnTool" (note the case) and a file  called "hntool".

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 107419
nosy: srid
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: 2.7rc1 tarfile.py: `bltn_open(targetpath, "wb")` -> IOError: Is a directory
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7

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