commit cdf1ebd8feff4b1d9410f10a7c7c51a7cecad65a
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Sat Jan 18 15:54:32 2014 +0200
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Sat Jan 18 15:54:32 2014 +0200
tree dc7bad832e512a5f042cd2d9edbce561d752ccfb
parent 75ba21a77d41be2a4d5f824363e69d45bcba1ec4

Backported test for issue #20238.

Lib/test/test_tarfile.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 49469fd..8767d51 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -657,6 +657,12 @@
         tar.addfile(tarfile.TarInfo("foo"))
         tar.close()
         self.assertTrue(fobj.closed is False, "external fileobjs must never closed")
+        # Issue #20238: Incomplete gzip output with mode="w:gz"
+        data = fobj.getvalue()
+        del tar
+        test_support.gc_collect()
+        self.assertFalse(fobj.closed)
+        self.assertEqual(data, fobj.getvalue())
 
 
 class WriteTest(WriteTestBase):