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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/tarfile.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py index 270c2b2..0f088a3 100644 --- a/Lib/tarfile.py +++ b/Lib/tarfile.py @@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ import errno import time import struct +if sys.platform == 'mac': + # This module needs work for MacOS9, especially in the area of pathname + # handling. In many places it is assumed a simple substitution of / by the + # local os.path.sep is good enough to convert pathnames, but this does not + # work with the mac rooted:path:name versus :nonrooted:path:name syntax + raise ImportError, "tarfile does not work for platform==mac" + try: import grp, pwd except ImportError: |