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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_tarfile.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index cd58c9a459..0f3df7fa06 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ class ReadDetectFileobjTest(ReadTest):
def setUp(self):
name = tarname(self.comp)
- self.tar = tarfile.open(name, mode=self.mode, fileobj=file(name))
+ self.tar = tarfile.open(name, mode=self.mode,
+ fileobj=open(name, "rb"))
class ReadAsteriskTest(ReadTest):