'mkpath()' now detects non-string 'name' arguments -- this is a fairly common

bug when adding new code, so I thought I'd make it blow up earlier
than deep in posix.py.
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Greg Ward 2000-05-27 01:35:27 +00:00
parent 46380906d1
commit 2d238c56a6
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@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Utility functions for manipulating directories and directory trees."""
__revision__ = "$Id$"
import os
from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
from types import *
from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError, DistutilsInternalError
# cache for by mkpath() -- in addition to cheapening redundant calls,
@ -29,6 +30,11 @@ 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:
raise DistutilsInternalError, \
"mkpath: 'name' must be a string (got %s)" % `name`
# XXX what's the better way to handle verbosity? print as we create
# each directory in the path (the current behaviour), or only announce
# the creation of the whole path? (quite easy to do the latter since