Bug report

During review of #112966 and #103263 I found inconsistency between zipfile and tarfile. When zipfile tries to extract a directory on top of an existing file, it fails. When tarfile tries to extract a directory on top of an existing file, it silently returns, keeping an existing file. This is an obvious bug in tarfile.

Both modules should be more cautious when extract on top of symlinks, but this is a different issue.

Linked PRs

• gh-114959: tarfile: do not ignore errors when extract a directory on top of a file #114960
• [3.12] gh-114959: tarfile: do not ignore errors when extract a directory on top of a file (GH-114960) #114963
• [3.11] gh-114959: tarfile: do not ignore errors when extract a directory on top of a file (GH-114960) #114964