Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment:
Closing as won't fix: this would be the same if you had any code which tried
to do os.mkdir (aux). By way of comparison, Info-ZIP's UnZip returns
checkdir error: aux exists but is not directory which actually seems less
useful!
I don't
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Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
See also #481171.
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Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar added the comment:
You're right, aux is a reserved name on Windows (like prn, con, and a
few others). There is a way to force the OS to actually create such
files, but not every tool can handle them correctly.
If the zip file is intended to be
New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com:
The following exception occured when I tried to extract http://
sourceforge.net/projects/slut/files/slut/slut-0.9.0/slut-0.9.0.zip/
download using the zipfile module on Windows XP.
Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com added the comment:
Shortly following this exception, I tried to create the directory myself
C:\... mkdir slut-0.9\aux
The directory name is invalid.
Curiously, I searched the internet for why a directory named 'aux'
cannot be created anywhere on
Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com added the comment:
Let's keep this open as these sort of errors should ideally by wrapped
under ZipError, no?
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