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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/dir_util.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 7f14503..2248b60 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def mkpath (name, mode=0777, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
global _path_created
# Detect a common bug -- name is None
- if type(name) is not StringType:
+ if not isinstance(name, StringTypes):
raise DistutilsInternalError, \
"mkpath: 'name' must be a string (got %r)" % (name,)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f5a2526..765565c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ Extension Modules
Library
-------
+- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
+
- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.