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authorRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 19:09:31 +0000
committerRonald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>2010-05-05 19:09:31 +0000
commita8ed20854e0c1c7dde11f68451478f18fcb7fc68 (patch)
tree141ead30170143eb0fbba5402eccb851534bb71d /Lib/tarfile.py
parentc40d7af57d94f0a7e7e4a2a380ec3d5d86773b55 (diff)
downloadcpython-a8ed20854e0c1c7dde11f68451478f18fcb7fc68.tar.gz
In a number of places code still revers
to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is dead code because it refers to a platform that is no longer supported (and hasn't been supported for several releases). Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.
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diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index b0af5b15b3..4b03c28305 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -53,13 +53,6 @@ import copy
import re
import operator
-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: