[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-06-15 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: See also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2010-August/001207.html for a similar report. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-06-14 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: I think it would be good. -- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo versions: -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-06-12 Thread Ameya Lokare
Ameya Lokare added the comment: shutil.Error is raised in copytree, copyfile and move, with a different format in each case. I was thinking the Error argument format could be documented in the descriptions of these functions (possibly with some examples). What do you think? -- _

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-06-10 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the patch. Have you had a chance to investigate Terry’s question? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-05-19 Thread Ameya Lokare
Ameya Lokare added the comment: I've attached a proposed doc patch. I figured I'd move the Error argument format in the description of shutil.copytree, since the format is different for other functions (shutil.move, for example). -- keywords: +patch nosy: +lokare.ameya Added file: htt

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2011-05-15 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I also found the doc confusing. Does "This exception collects exceptions that raised during a multi-file operation." that Error is used for .rmtree or .move? If so, what format. If not, revise. And I also wondered how to access and use an Error. -- n

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2010-05-16 Thread Éric Araujo
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[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2010-04-20 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I agree with all your points. The copystat error can be fixed right away and applied for 2.6 to 3.x For other points, I'll change the way the Error works but this will require an heavy deprecation process. In the meantime I can document the behavior, and provi

[issue7969] shutil.copytree error handling non-standard and partially broken

2010-02-19 Thread Shawn
New submission from Shawn : The error handling present in the implementation of shutil.copytree in python 2.6.4 (and perhaps other versions) is non-standard and partially broken. In particular, I'm unable to find any pydoc documentation that indicates that when copytree raises shutil.Error, th