Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Agreed this is confusing. Is this a Linux specific error? Trying this on Mac gives me a different error code and exception. # Mac $ ./python.exe Python 3.8.0a0 (heads/master:cd449806fa, Nov 12 2018, 09:51:24) [Clang 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shutil >>> shutil.copy('/tmp/a.py', 'Lib12/') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/karthikeyansingaravelan/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/shutil.py", line 385, in copy copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks) File "/Users/karthikeyansingaravelan/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/shutil.py", line 240, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Lib12/' # Ubuntu ./python Python 3.8.0a0 (heads/master:dce345c51a, Nov 12 2018, 13:01:05) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shutil >>> shutil.copy('/tmp/a.py', 'Lib12/') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/karthi/cpython/Lib/shutil.py", line 386, in copy copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks) File "/home/karthi/cpython/Lib/shutil.py", line 241, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 'Lib12/' ---------- nosy: +xtreak _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35216> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com