[issue33935] shutil.copyfile throws incorrect SameFileError

2018-06-21 Thread Deniz Bozyigit
New submission from Deniz Bozyigit : When using shutil.copyfile on the Google Drive File Stream file system, a incorrect SameFileError can occur. MWE (assuming foo.txt exists in your google drive G:\\): >>> f1 = 'G:\\My Drive\\foo.txt' >>> f2 = 'G:\\My D

[issue33935] shutil.copyfile throws incorrect SameFileError on Google Drive File Stream

2018-06-21 Thread Deniz Bozyigit
Change by Deniz Bozyigit : -- title: shutil.copyfile throws incorrect SameFileError -> shutil.copyfile throws incorrect SameFileError on Google Drive File Stream ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue33935] shutil.copyfile throws incorrect SameFileError on Google Drive File Stream

2018-06-21 Thread Deniz Bozyigit
Deniz Bozyigit added the comment: Hi, thank you for looking into this. I'm aware that the shown patch is not the ideal solution and a mere fix to get my jupyter operational. An indication on a workable solution could be the _samefile function in shutil that wraps os.path.samefile: