From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:12:10 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: whatsnew: shutil copyfile SameFileError (#1492704)
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~67
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c5598beaf6984853659572194002f2ea0b20e76;p=python

whatsnew: shutil copyfile SameFileError (#1492704)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index e5e720eca6..d210a8f94b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1297,6 +1297,16 @@ and will be automatically closed at the end of the :keyword:`with` block.
 (Contributed by Filip Gruszczyński in :issue:`13896`.)
 
 
+shutil
+------
+
+:func:`~shutil.copyfile` now raises a specific :exc:`~shutil.Error` subclass,
+:exc:`~shutil.SameFileError`, when the source and destination are the same
+file, which allows an application to take appropriate action on this specific
+error.  (Contributed by Atsuo Ishimoto and Hynek Schlawack in
+:issue:`1492704`.)
+
+
 smtpd
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