From a06c847ace000c0fbafc4627ed455c7bf945d823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nilesh Patil <128893479+nileshpatil6@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 20:07:54 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: silence ENOTDIR in Config.from_file() to match
 from_pyfile()

from_pyfile() already silences errno.ENOTDIR when silent=True, but
from_file() was missing it. Both methods should behave consistently
when a path component is a regular file rather than a directory.

Fixes #6023
---
 src/flask/config.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/flask/config.py b/src/flask/config.py
index 34ef1a57..9e37f2bd 100644
--- a/src/flask/config.py
+++ b/src/flask/config.py
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ class Config(dict):  # type: ignore[type-arg]
             with open(filename, "r" if text else "rb") as f:
                 obj = load(f)
         except OSError as e:
-            if silent and e.errno in (errno.ENOENT, errno.EISDIR):
+            if silent and e.errno in (errno.ENOENT, errno.EISDIR, errno.ENOTDIR):
                 return False
 
             e.strerror = f"Unable to load configuration file ({e.strerror})"