bpo-8978: improve tarfile.open error message when lzma / bz2 are missing (GH-24850)
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pablogsal
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 395c0f1..18d415a 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1604,17 +1604,20 @@ def open(cls, name=None, mode="r", fileobj=None, bufsize=RECORDSIZE, **kwargs):
# Find out which *open() is appropriate for opening the file.
def not_compressed(comptype):
return cls.OPEN_METH[comptype] == 'taropen'
+ error_msgs = []
for comptype in sorted(cls.OPEN_METH, key=not_compressed):
func = getattr(cls, cls.OPEN_METH[comptype])
if fileobj is not None:
saved_pos = fileobj.tell()
try:
return func(name, "r", fileobj, **kwargs)
- except (ReadError, CompressionError):
+ except (ReadError, CompressionError) as e:
+ error_msgs.append(f'- method {comptype}: {e!r}')
if fileobj is not None:
fileobj.seek(saved_pos)
continue
- raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
+ error_msgs_summary = '\n'.join(error_msgs)
+ raise ReadError(f"file could not be opened successfully:\n{error_msgs_summary}")
elif ":" in mode:
filemode, comptype = mode.split(":", 1)