From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:55:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #1167716: Support Unicode filenames in mkpath. Fixes #1121494.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~1464
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a5d4a20e7b2b758c974766cc3ac02af5a342483;p=python

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 7f1450373b..2248b607cf 100644
--- 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 f5a2526e51..765565cf17 100644
--- 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.