bpo-32713: Fix tarfile.itn for large/negative float values. (GH-5434)

[python-delta-tar] / filesplit.py

diff --git a/filesplit.py b/filesplit.py
index 1aa5c9a..1be0152 100644 (file)
--- a/filesplit.py
+++ b/filesplit.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 # Copyright (C) 2013 Intra2net AG
 #
@@ -99,5 +99,5 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         chunk_file(input_file=args.input_file, output_file=args.output,
                    from_pos=args.from_pos, to_pos=args.to_pos)
     else:
-        split_file(separator=bytes(args.separator, 'UTF-8'), prefix=args.prefix,
-                   input_file=args.input_file)
+        split_file(separator=args.separator.encode('UTF-8', errors="surrogateescape"),
+                   prefix=args.prefix, input_file=args.input_file)