[issue18525] Shutil cannot import WindowsError on windows

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

Seems legit ... I don't have access to a Windows system right now so I can't test it.

WindowsError is globally available on Windows. You don't have to import it from shutil. Portable application should use OSError instead of WindowsError. WindowsError is a subclass of OSError with a Windows specific extra field. "try: ... except OSError: ..." catches WindowsError, too.

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