gh-81325: tarfile should accept a path-like object when writing a compressed gzip

[aeurielesn]

• Issue: tarfile.open: improper handling of path-like object #81325

[emmatyping]

One suggestion for the news entry, but otherwise looks good!

[miss-islington-app]

Thanks @aeurielesn for the PR, and @emmatyping for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

[bedevere-app]

GH-137365 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.

[bedevere-app]

GH-137366 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch.

[bedevere-bot]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot AMD64 Windows Server 2022 NoGIL 3.x (tier-1) has failed when building commit 3ec3d05.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/1241/builds/6391) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (3ec3d05) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/#/builders/1241/builds/6391

Failed tests:

• test_launcher

Failed subtests:

• test_virtualenv_with_env - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_virtualenv_with_env
• tearDownClass - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher
• test_search_path - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_search_path
• test_search_major_2 - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_search_major_2
• test_py_default - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_py_default
• test_recursive_search_path - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_recursive_search_path
• test_search_path_exe - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_search_path_exe
• test_search_major_3 - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_search_major_3
• test_py2_shebang_nl - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_py2_shebang_nl
• test_python_shebang - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_python_shebang
• test_shebang_command_in_venv - test.test_launcher.TestLauncher.test_shebang_command_in_venv

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

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Click to see traceback logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 465, in test_search_major_2
    self.assertEqual("PythonCore", data["env.company"])
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 'PythonCore' != 'PythonTestSuite'
- PythonCore
+ PythonTestSuite


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 676, in test_search_path_exe
    data = self.run_py(
        [script, "-postarg"],
        env={"PATH": f"{exe.parent};{os.getenv('PATH')}"},
    )
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 606, in test_py2_shebang_nl
    data = self.run_py([script, "-postarg"])
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 552, in test_virtualenv_with_env
    data2 = self.run_py(["-V:PythonTestSuite/3"], env={**env, "PY_PYTHON": "PythonTestSuite/3"})
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 571, in test_python_shebang
    data = self.run_py([script, "-postarg"])
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 309, in tearDownClass
    delete_registry_data(key, TEST_DATA)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 129, in delete_registry_data
    with winreg.OpenKey(root, key, access=ACCESS) as hkey:
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 471, in test_py_default
    self.assertEqual("PythonTestSuite", data["SearchInfo.company"])
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 'PythonTestSuite' != '(null)'
- PythonTestSuite
+ (null)


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 787, in test_shebang_command_in_venv
    data = self.run_py([script], env=env)
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 662, in test_search_path
    data = self.run_py(
        [script, "-postarg"],
        env={"PATH": f"{exe.parent};{os.getenv('PATH')}"},
    )
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 687, in test_recursive_search_path
    data = self.run_py(
        [script],
        env={"PATH": f"{self.get_py_exe().parent};{os.getenv('PATH')}"},
    )
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 254, in run_py
    self.assertEqual(expect_returncode, p.returncode)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 0 != 103


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\buildarea\3.x.itamaro-win64-srv-22-aws.x64.nogil\build\Lib\test\test_launcher.py", line 445, in test_search_major_3
    self.assertEqual("PythonCore", data["env.company"])
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 'PythonCore' != 'PythonTestSuite'
- PythonCore
+ PythonTestSuite