Issue #28449: tarfile.open() with mode "r" or "r:" now tries to open a tar
file with compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise
it had 50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 721f9d7..999a99b 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1549,7 +1549,9 @@
if mode in ("r", "r:*"):
# Find out which *open() is appropriate for opening the file.
- for comptype in cls.OPEN_METH:
+ def not_compressed(comptype):
+ return cls.OPEN_METH[comptype] == 'taropen'
+ 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()