[Python-Dev] test_gzip/test_tarfile failure om AMD64

[Terry Reedy]

>Perhaps more people could chime in? Am I being too anal about backward 
> >compatibility here?

As a sometimes bug report reviewer, I would like the reported discrepancy 
between the public docs and visible code behavior fixed one way or the 
other (by changing the docs or code) since that is my working definition 
for whether something is a bug or not.

Terry Jan Reedy