New submission from Catalin Iacob <iacobcata...@gmail.com>: I recently tried to answer the question: "When moving a file to a destination that is an already existing file, is the destination overwritten?"
>From the current docs I understood that if src and dst are on the same >filesystem then os.rename is used, if they are on different filesystems then >copy + remove is used instead. Since os.rename fails on Windows if the >destination exists I concluded that shutil.move would fail on Windows and >overwrite dst on Unix. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 140520 nosy: catalin.iacob, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Misleading shutil.move docs regarding when os.rename is used versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12577> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
