gh-102931: Fix nonsense error messages in shutil.py#102827
gh-102931: Fix nonsense error messages in shutil.py#102827eric-wieser wants to merge 2 commits intopython:mainfrom
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Attempting to copy a file onto a symlink to itself previously gave the error ``` shutil.Error: ['<', 'D', 'i', 'r', 'E', 'n', 't', 'r', 'y', ' ', "'", 's', 't', 'y', 'l', 'e', '.', 'c', 's', 's', "'", '>', ' ', 'a', 'n', 'd', ' ', "'", 'b', 'u', 'i', 'l', 'd', '/', 'h', 't', 'm', 'l', '/', 's', 't', 'y', 'l', 'e', '.', 'c', 's', 's', "'", ' ', 'a', 'r', 'e', ' ', 't', 'h', 'e', ' ', 's', 'a', 'm', 'e', ' ', 'f', 'i', 'l', 'e'] ```
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For a change like this you need to create an issue explaining what the problem you are fixing is (with a script to reproduce it). |
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@iritkatriel The review got addressed: gh-102931 |
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@eric-wieser Could you add a NEWS entry please? The Bedevere bot didn't post a reminder for some reason even after retriggering it with a merge commit. |
I didn't get around to adding a test to this PR though (and may not for some time). |
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Attempting to copy a file onto a symlink to itself previously gave the error