'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.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index c049bbd..194183a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
__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 @@
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