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Author groodt
Recipients BreamoreBoy, bbrazil, brian.curtin, eric.araujo, groodt, jemfinch, jlgijsbers, loewis, pitrou, tarek, tim.golden
Date 2012-07-07.15:52:53
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I believe this can be closed.

shutil.copyfile attempts to copy file contents from src to dst, so it makes sense for this to fail if dst is read-only.

shutil.move replaces the dst, which is permitted based on directory permissions.
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Date User Action Args
2012-07-07 15:52:54groodtsetrecipients: + groodt, loewis, jlgijsbers, jemfinch, pitrou, tim.golden, tarek, eric.araujo, brian.curtin, BreamoreBoy, bbrazil
2012-07-07 15:52:53groodtsetmessageid: <1341676373.87.0.145034806329.issue1076515@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-07-07 15:52:53groodtlinkissue1076515 messages
2012-07-07 15:52:53groodtcreate