From: Johannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:26:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document not-completely-obvious behavior in a test.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4b1~291
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d60e92a48d1e4d2298200e688329eda7a326be4a;p=python

Document not-completely-obvious behavior in a test.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
index 9e5f6ff048..f8367a60c2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ class TestShutil(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(shutil.rmtree(filename, True), None)
         shutil.rmtree(filename, False, lambda func, arg, exc: None)
 
+    def test_rmtree_dont_delete_file(self):
+        # When called on a file instead of a directory, don't delete it.
+        handle, path = tempfile.mkstemp()
+        os.fdopen(handle).close()
+        self.assertRaises(OSError, shutil.rmtree, path)
+        os.remove(path)
+
     def test_dont_move_dir_in_itself(self):
         src_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         try: