Give nice error message if destination directory doesn't exist (issue #1048)

12 years ago · 77c88fa63a
parent d786e876a7
commit 77c88fa63a
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+++ b/2
@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ def main():
            module.fail_json(msg="Destination %s cannot be a directory" % (dest))
        md5sum_dest = module.md5(dest)
    else:
+        if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(dest)):
+            module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s does not exist" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
        if not os.access(os.path.dirname(dest), os.W_OK):
            module.fail_json(msg="Destination %s not writable" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))