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Author	mew
Recipients	mew
Date	2015-05-18.17:23:41
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Message-id	<1431969821.39.0.237201791785.issue24231@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Darwin, os.mkdir('/') raises IsADirectory. On Linux, the same call raises FileExistsError. The implementation for os.makedirs() in Python 3.2+ checks only for the latter when evaluating the exists_ok parameter. This causes os.makedirs('/', exist_ok=True) to fail on Darwin but succeed on Linux.

On Darwin, os.mkdir('/') raises IsADirectory. On Linux, the same call raises FileExistsError. The implementation for os.makedirs() in Python 3.2+ checks only for the latter when evaluating the exists_ok parameter. This causes os.makedirs('/', exist_ok=True) to fail on Darwin but succeed on Linux.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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