Greg Roodt <gro...@gmail.com> added the comment: I believe this can be closed.
shutil.copyfile attempts to copy file contents from src to dst, so it makes sense for this to fail if dst is read-only. shutil.move replaces the dst, which is permitted based on directory permissions. ---------- nosy: +groodt _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1076515> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com