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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/shutil.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_shutil.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index ec8cad2..b2efcbd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ Directory and files operations Now returns *dst*. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 - Raise :exc:`SameFileError` instead of :exc:`Error`. + Raise :exc:`SameFileError` instead of :exc:`Error`. Since the former is + a subclass of the latter, this change is backward compatible. .. exception:: SameFileError diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py index cbca767..c3997dc 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py @@ -1223,6 +1223,8 @@ class TestShutil(unittest.TestCase): src_file = os.path.join(src_dir, 'foo') write_file(src_file, 'foo') self.assertRaises(SameFileError, shutil.copyfile, src_file, src_file) + # But Error should work too, to stay backward compatible. + self.assertRaises(Error, shutil.copyfile, src_file, src_file) def test_copytree_return_value(self): # copytree returns its destination path. |