#1492704: Ensure and document backward compatibility of the change

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Hynek Schlawack 2012-10-28 13:59:27 +01:00
parent 5887959091
commit 27ddb576f1
2 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ Directory and files operations
Now returns *dst*.
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
Raise :exc:`SameFileError` instead of :exc:`Error`.
Raise :exc:`SameFileError` instead of :exc:`Error`. Since the former is
a subclass of the latter, this change is backward compatible.
.. exception:: SameFileError

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@ -1223,6 +1223,8 @@ class TestShutil(unittest.TestCase):
src_file = os.path.join(src_dir, 'foo')
write_file(src_file, 'foo')
self.assertRaises(SameFileError, shutil.copyfile, src_file, src_file)
# But Error should work too, to stay backward compatible.
self.assertRaises(Error, shutil.copyfile, src_file, src_file)
def test_copytree_return_value(self):
# copytree returns its destination path.