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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/archive_util.py9
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
index 264e66faf2..251c0df4e9 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py
@@ -162,9 +162,12 @@ def make_archive (base_name, format,
kwargs[arg] = val
filename = apply(func, (base_name, base_dir), kwargs)
- if root_dir is not None:
- log.debug("changing back to '%s'", save_cwd)
- os.chdir(save_cwd)
+ try:
+ filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs)
+ finally:
+ if root_dir is not None:
+ log.debug("changing back to '%s'", save_cwd)
+ os.chdir(save_cwd)
return filename
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ad25699ecb..307c332979 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ C-API
Library
-------
+- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
+ raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
+
- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in append
mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't empty.