Tony Meyer wrote: > Is this the intended behaviour? Sort-of. os.rename invokes the C library's rename, and does whatever this does. It is expected that most platform's C libraries do what the documentation says rename does, but platforms may vary in their implementation of the C library, and from one compiler version to the other.
Microsoft's documentation of rename/_rename/_wrename is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_rename.2c_._wrename.asp It doesn't say anything about renaming in-use files, either. Looking at the implementation of _rename, I see that it directly calls MoveFile, which is documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/movefile.asp That doesn't mention the in-use case, either. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
