Thomas Heller wrote: > Michael Foord schrieb: > >> Hello all, >> >> There may be a reasonable cause for this (i.e. it is likely to be my >> fault) - but it is consistent across two different machines I have tried >> it on. >> >> With Python 2.5b2 (from the msi at Python.org), running on Windows XP >> Pro SP2, ``os.utime`` and ``os.chmod`` fail with WindowsError. The same >> code runs fine on Python 2.3 and Python 2.4. >> >> [err] shutil.copytree(thisentry, targetdir) >> [err] File "C:\Python25\lib\shutil.py", line 130, in copytree >> [err] copystat(src, dst) >> [err] File "C:\Python25\lib\shutil.py", line 67, in copystat >> [err] os.utime(dst, (st.st_atime, st.st_mtime)) >> [err] WindowsError: [Error 13] Access is denied: 'lib\\Pmw' >> [err] >> >> The script uses ``shutil.copytree`` to copy a directory (using relative >> paths). >> > > IMO this is a bug in Python 2.5, on Windows. > The problem is that the call to 'copystat(src, dst)' was added to > the shutil.copytree function, in svn r38363 probably. It will fail > always on Windows, since os.utime does not work on directories (as the > docs correctly explain). > > I guess that a patch similar to this one should fix it: > > Index: shutil.py > =================================================================== > --- shutil.py (Revision 50710) > +++ shutil.py (Arbeitskopie) > @@ -127,7 +127,12 @@ > # continue with other files > except Error, err: > errors.extend(err.args[0]) > - copystat(src, dst) > + try: > + copystat(src, dst) > + except WindowsError: > + pass > + except OSError, err: > + errors.extend(err.args[0]) > if errors: > raise Error, errors > > But you should report this to the bug tracker. > Ok, thanks.
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