Document not-completely-obvious behavior in a test.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
index 9e5f6ff..f8367a6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
self.assertEqual(shutil.rmtree(filename, True), None)
shutil.rmtree(filename, False, lambda func, arg, exc: None)
+ def test_rmtree_dont_delete_file(self):
+ # When called on a file instead of a directory, don't delete it.
+ handle, path = tempfile.mkstemp()
+ os.fdopen(handle).close()
+ self.assertRaises(OSError, shutil.rmtree, path)
+ os.remove(path)
+
def test_dont_move_dir_in_itself(self):
src_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
try: