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tarfile: TarFile.offset attribute is not updated with the remainder when closing a TarFile

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Description

Bug report

Bug description:

The TarFile.offset attribute is not updated with the remainder when closing the tar.

import io
import pathlib
import tarfile

tar = tarfile.open("test.tar", "w")
t = tarfile.TarInfo("foo")
t.size = 123
tar.addfile(t, io.BytesIO(b"a" * t.size))
tar.close()
assert len(pathlib.Path("test.tar").read_bytes()) == tar.offset  # Fails because tar.offset is 2048, although 10240 bytes have been written

If this intentional, a test case asserting the current behavior should be added.
In case this is not intentional, a suggested change to make the offset match the number of bytes written, and a test case asserting it, are included in the snippet below.
In either case, I'd be happy to submit a PR.

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index a0fab46b24e..feafb88d2d3 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2027,6 +2027,7 @@ def close(self):
                 blocks, remainder = divmod(self.offset, RECORDSIZE)
                 if remainder > 0:
                     self.fileobj.write(NUL * (RECORDSIZE - remainder))
+                    self.offset += (RECORDSIZE - remainder)
         finally:
             if not self._extfileobj:
                 self.fileobj.close()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 2549b6b35ad..4d1a2b2171b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -1333,6 +1333,18 @@ def test_eof_marker(self):
         with self.open(tmpname, "rb") as fobj:
             self.assertEqual(len(fobj.read()), tarfile.RECORDSIZE * 2)

+    def test_offset_on_close(self):
+        # Check the offset after calling close matches the total number of
+        # bytes written.
+        tar = tarfile.open(tmpname, self.mode)
+        t = tarfile.TarInfo("foo")
+        tar.addfile(t)
+        tar.close()
+
+        with self.open(tmpname, "rb") as fobj:
+            self.assertEqual(len(fobj.read()), tar.offset)
+

 class WriteTest(WriteTestBase, unittest.TestCase):
CPython versions tested on:

3.14, 3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs
  • gh-133919

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Research direction

The relevant files are Lib/tarfile.py and Lib/test/test_tarfile.py. Start by reading TarFile.close and the existing EOF-marker tests, then run the tarfile test suite. Done means the offset behavior is explicitly covered and matches the intended number of bytes written after closing.

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