[Tony Meyer] >> Is this the intended behaviour? > [Martin v. Löwis] > 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. [snip links to Microsoft documentation, which don't cover the in-use case]
Thanks for that. In your opinion, would a documentation patch that explained that this would occur on Windows (after the existing note about the Windows rename not being atomic) be acceptable? (The Windows platform C library for Python 2.4+ is in msvcrt71.dll, right? Does that mean that behaviour will be consistent across Windows versions, or could 9x/NT/XP/etc all behave differently?) =Tony.Meyer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list