From 8c7461480b0bd1efa3bb51f15adec90c45d821c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:18:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix failure in error handler -- exc[-1] -> exc.args[-1].

---
 Lib/distutils/dir_util.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index a6c4416a6fe..7dc1205c496 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ def mkpath (name, mode=0o777, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
                 os.mkdir(head)
                 created_dirs.append(head)
             except OSError as exc:
-                raise DistutilsFileError, \
-                      "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc[-1])
+                raise DistutilsFileError(
+                      "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc.args[-1]))
 
         _path_created[abs_head] = 1
     return created_dirs