https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9c2db5725ee736222af519cc9deb68a0dec1a4c2 commit: 9c2db5725ee736222af519cc9deb68a0dec1a4c2 branch: 3.12 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: barneygale <[email protected]> date: 2024-01-23T02:37:35Z summary:
[3.12] GH-82695: Clarify `pathlib.Path.mkdir()` documentation (GH-114032) (#114462) Remove a double negative in the documentation of `mkdir()`'s *exist_ok* parameter. (cherry picked from commit 32c227470aa6f72950b76206ffc529c258b4b8fa) Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/pathlib.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst index 701131b5b2ec46..345a974dcb10bd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst @@ -1184,9 +1184,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist). If *exist_ok* is false (the default), :exc:`FileExistsError` is raised if the target directory already exists. - If *exist_ok* is true, :exc:`FileExistsError` exceptions will be - ignored (same behavior as the POSIX ``mkdir -p`` command), but only if the - last path component is not an existing non-directory file. + If *exist_ok* is true, :exc:`FileExistsError` will not be raised unless the given + path already exists in the file system and is not a directory (same + behavior as the POSIX ``mkdir -p`` command). .. versionchanged:: 3.5 The *exist_ok* parameter was added. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
