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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Jul 10, 2026 •
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This applies a normalization when creating members vrom the filesystem,
complementary to the one added to tarfile.TarFile.extract() in gh-138309
that does it in the other direction.
This solves an issue with round-tripping through the filesystem.
(cherry picked from commit cc31641)

Co-authored-by: Daniele Nicolodi [email protected]

  • Issue: tarfile.TarFile.add() does not normalize symlink targets on Windows #151669

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@dnicolodi @miss-islington
pythongh-151669: Normalize symlink targets in tarfile.TarFile.gettari…
ba27330
…nfo() (pythonGH-151671)

This applies a normalization when creating members vrom the filesystem,
 complementary to the one added to tarfile.TarFile.extract() in pythongh-138309
that does it in the other direction.
This solves an issue with round-tripping through the filesystem.
(cherry picked from commit cc31641)

Co-authored-by: Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]>
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miss-islington requested review from AA-Turner and ethanfurman as code owners July 10, 2026 13:53
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tarfile.TarFile.add() does not normalize symlink targets on Windows #151669
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hugovk merged commit fefc0b4 into python:3.15 Jul 17, 2026
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miss-islington deleted the backport-cc31641-3.15 branch July 17, 2026 20:37
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