Todd Rovito added the comment: Thanks Terry and Chris you guys have supplied great feedback. I will work on the issue and try to get a new patch updated by end of the weekend (2/18/13).
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:56 PM, "Terry J. Reedy" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > 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.) > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue16278> > _______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16278> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
