[Pythonmac-SIG] macostools copy function broken in MachoPython build?

[Just van Rossum]

Kevin Altis wrote:

> A friend of mine wanted to start using Python and as his first program he
> wanted to be able to do a recursive backup of a directory of files to
> another volume. Since he's on a Mac that means using the copy or copytree
> functions in order to get the data and resource fork and Finder info.
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/mac/module-macostools.html
> 
> However, he's trying to do this on Mac OS X, so I had him go get
> MachoPython-2.2.1-4.dmg from the wxPython distribution:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&release_id=56880
> 
> When we tried using copy function a file not found error was thrown for the
> destination file. If you go ahead and create a dummy file, the copy still
> seems to fail, though no errors are thrown. The actual message is:
> 
> MacOS.Error: (-43, 'File not found')
> 
> My friend installed MacPython on OS 9 and macostools.copy seemed to work
> there, though of course the path is done with ':' instead of '/'. Any ideas
> what we're doing wrong or is this a MachoPython macostools bug? Perhaps this
> is just a problem with how Robin did the 2.2.1-4 build?
> 
> I've included some playing around I did in the shell under Mac OS X that
> shows the error. Sorry about the email line wrapping.

This sounds a lot like this bug I filed the other day:

  http://www.python.org/sf/585923

Just