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  r70523 | lars.gustaebel | 2009-03-22 21:09:33 +0100 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
  forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
  with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
  partial bzip2 compressed data.
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diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index b678185..8e98dfa 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -662,12 +662,11 @@
         b = [self.buf]
         x = len(self.buf)
         while x < size:
-            try:
-                raw = self.fileobj.read(self.blocksize)
-                data = self.bz2obj.decompress(raw)
-                b.append(data)
-            except EOFError:
+            raw = self.fileobj.read(self.blocksize)
+            if not raw:
                 break
+            data = self.bz2obj.decompress(raw)
+            b.append(data)
             x += len(data)
         self.buf = "".join(b)