The filename fix of the previous checkin was complete bogus, the problem is elsewhere. Retracting.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index f865ceb..bd80258 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
"""
if self.sep != "|":
f1 = self.tar.extractfile("S-SPARSE")
- f2 = self.tar.extractfile("/S-SPARSE-WITH-NULLS")
+ f2 = self.tar.extractfile("S-SPARSE-WITH-NULLS")
self.assert_(f1.read() == f2.read(),
"_FileObject failed on sparse file member")
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
"""Test readlines() method of _FileObject.
"""
if self.sep != "|":
- filename = "/0-REGTYPE-TEXT"
+ filename = "0-REGTYPE-TEXT"
self.tar.extract(filename, dirname())
lines1 = file(os.path.join(dirname(), filename), "rU").readlines()
lines2 = self.tar.extractfile(filename).readlines()
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
"""Test seek() method of _FileObject, incl. random reading.
"""
if self.sep != "|":
- filename = "/0-REGTYPE"
+ filename = "0-REGTYPE"
self.tar.extract(filename, dirname())
data = file(os.path.join(dirname(), filename), "rb").read()