Patch #1167716: Support Unicode filenames in mkpath. Fixes #1121494.

Will backport to 2.4.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 7f1450373b5c631e7f4ae7698314d710454b55a0..2248b607cf4e4b79811507da57f4fa03fab85c14 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def mkpath (name, mode=0777, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     global _path_created
 
     # Detect a common bug -- name is None
-    if type(name) is not StringType:
+    if not isinstance(name, StringTypes):   
         raise DistutilsInternalError, \
               "mkpath: 'name' must be a string (got %r)" % (name,)
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f5a2526e51b2c312d35ef028074b76c0cb1ba1f7..765565cf17d8ad8bd94268285165890c3c6dafb8 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
+
 - Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
   even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
   correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.