From 7a3fd89994b8f79878a2b2d861ed1862b24c5bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:54:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #1472949: stringify IOErrors in shutil.copytree when
 appending them to the Error errors list.

---
 Lib/shutil.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 2fca61c164d..c50184c733c 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False):
                 copy2(srcname, dstname)
             # XXX What about devices, sockets etc.?
         except (IOError, os.error), why:
-            errors.append((srcname, dstname, why))
+            errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why)))
         # catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can
         # continue with other files
         except Error, err: