2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 4991ae1..6199213 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -692,7 +692,6 @@ class _BZ2Proxy(object):
         if self.mode == "w":
             raw = self.bz2obj.flush()
             self.fileobj.write(raw)
-        self.fileobj.close()
 # class _BZ2Proxy
 
 #------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index f0e755e..f3bc12d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -529,7 +529,19 @@ class PaxReadTest(LongnameTest):
         self.assertEqual(float(tarinfo.pax_headers["ctime"]), 1041808783.0)
 
 
-class WriteTest(unittest.TestCase):
+class WriteTestBase(unittest.TestCase):
+    # Put all write tests in here that are supposed to be tested
+    # in all possible mode combinations.
+
+    def test_fileobj_no_close(self):
+        fobj = StringIO.StringIO()
+        tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=fobj, mode=self.mode)
+        tar.addfile(tarfile.TarInfo("foo"))
+        tar.close()
+        self.assert_(fobj.closed is False, "external fileobjs must never closed")
+
+
+class WriteTest(WriteTestBase):
 
     mode = "w:"
 
@@ -652,7 +664,7 @@ class WriteTest(unittest.TestCase):
             shutil.rmtree(tempdir)
 
 
-class StreamWriteTest(unittest.TestCase):
+class StreamWriteTest(WriteTestBase):
 
     mode = "w|"