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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-20 14:17:42 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-01-20 14:17:42 (GMT)
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#1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink.
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@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@ Core and builtins
Library
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+- #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink to a
+ directory.
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- #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.