On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > I'm not sure it was *well* defined (or even defined at all). It seems > more of a by-product of the implementation. It's not only different > from mv, but it's inconsistent with itself (the semantics are different > depending on whether the paths are on the same filesystem or not; > also, it copied the *file* but erased the *link*).
Yeah, Hynek's explanation pointing out the existing inconsistencies made sense to me. I have to agree with the point that symlinks+removable media are almost inevitably going to create weirdness that isn't easily handled by any means other than "symlinks=False" :P Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
