diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -2006,6 +2006,22 @@
         finally:
             support.unlink(tar_name)
 
+    def test_create_command_filetype(self):
+        files = [support.findfile('tokenize_tests.txt'),
+                 support.findfile('tokenize_tests-no-coding-cookie-'
+                                  'and-utf8-bom-sig-only.txt')]
+
+        for filetype in (GzipTest, Bz2Test, LzmaTest):
+            if not filetype.open:
+                continue
+            try:
+                filename = tmpname + '.' + filetype.suffix
+                out = self.tarfilecmd('-c', filename, *files)
+                with filetype.taropen(filename, 'r') as tar:
+                    pass
+            finally:
+                support.unlink(filename)
+
     def test_extract_command(self):
         self.make_simple_tarfile(tmpname)
         for opt in '-e', '--extract':