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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
commit9545a23c7ffb35417d451d24cc3b0339627965a7 (patch)
tree5e22fd30c1c6936970b4d87ca3e91f8428c74983 /Lib/tarfile.py
parenta8157183b89c08cf47c969185d40973ec21a81c5 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-9545a23c7ffb35417d451d24cc3b0339627965a7.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: