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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/file_util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/file_util.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py index 526e4cf..14772fb 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py @@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ def _copy_file_contents (src, dst, buffer_size=16*1024): raise DistutilsFileError, \ "could not open '%s': %s" % (src, errstr) + if os.path.exists(dst): + try: + os.unlink(dst) + except os.error, (errno, errstr): + raise DistutilsFileError, \ + "could not delete '%s': %s" % (dst, errstr) + try: fdst = open(dst, 'wb') except os.error, (errno, errstr): |