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[Ilmar Wilbers <ilmarw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I had that problem. The problem is that the file f is the absolute 
path.

ilamr

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > changeset:   211:a571f8044546d54474867e80906689a0e6ca8aa5
> > user:        Ilmar Wilbers <ilmarw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > date:        Wed Sep 03 11:56:09 2008 +0200
> > files:       src/instant/build_module.py
> > description:
> > Add test:
> >    a = os.path.join(source_directory, f)
> >    b = os.path.join(module_path, f)
> >    if a == b:
> >        continue
> > This because the files are the same, and shutil.copyfile will not
> > overwrite, causing an error (overwriting in this case is not
> > necessary, anyway).
> >     
>
> Why is this necessary? Outside the for loop is this line:
>         if source_directory != module_path:
> how can they be the same?
>
>