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

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

I am curious as to why this should still "fail" as the OSX filesystem is case sensitive. Finder has no problems with extrating this particular tarball. Do you think this is a (separate) bug, or is this by design (why?)?

If this is by design, does it make sense to raise a custom exception from TarError, instead of the generic IOError?

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