Commit cfc4902b authored by Jack Jansen's avatar Jack Jansen

Make tarfile raise ImportError on MacOS9. The pathname handling needs work,...

Make tarfile raise ImportError on MacOS9. The pathname handling needs work, and I don't have time to fix it. I'll file a bug report.
parent 149a8993
......@@ -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:
......
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