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Thanks Terry and Chris you guys have supplied great feedback. I will work on the issue and try to get a new patch updated by end of the weekend (2/18/13).
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On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:56 PM, "Terry J. Reedy" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
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> "directory name.Yet a" needs spaces after '.'.
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> The text is decent English and clear enough sentence by sentence, but the reality and hence the text as a whole is confusing.
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> I wonder if it would be possible to make a little table
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> dest
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> Src file empty-dir non-empty-dir
> ---- -----------------------------------------
> file | | |
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> dir
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> with the behavior for each combination indicated, 'success' or 'OSError', with two lines prefixed with Unix, Win where they differ. Then the differences would be much more obvious.
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> (A separate issue: Patch says that Windows currently raises a different error in one situation. I think it would be better -- in a future version -- if that were caught and reraised as OSError also.)
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2013-02-14 12:39:28 | Todd.Rovito | set | recipients:
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