[issue11513] Infinite recursion around raising an exception in tarfile
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Mar 16 17:40:57 CET 2011
R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:
This fix reveals a second bug. Without this fix, a non-existent file raises an IOError with an appropriate error message, but with the chained exception. After this fix, it raises an error that says 'not a gzip file', which while technically true is not very helpful :)
The correct IOError message only happened by accident in the original code, but we need to fix this second bug in order to fix the first one correctly. I suggest that the test case should read:
with self.assertRaisesRegex("xxx", IOError) as ex:
tarfile.open("xxx", self.mode)
self.assertEqual(ex.exception.errno, errno.ENOENT)
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nosy: +r.david.murray
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