Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

"directory name.Yet a" needs spaces after '.'.

The text is decent English and clear enough sentence by sentence, but the 
reality and hence the text as a whole is confusing.

I wonder if it would be possible to make a little table

                    dest
                    ----   
Src     file         empty-dir    non-empty-dir
----    -----------------------------------------
file |            |            |

dir

with the behavior for each combination indicated, 'success' or 'OSError', with 
two lines prefixed with Unix, Win where they differ. Then the differences would 
be much more obvious.

(A separate issue: Patch says that Windows currently raises a different error 
in one situation. I think it would be better -- in a future version -- if that 
were caught and reraised as OSError also.)

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