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Author	draghuram
Recipients	draghuram, facundobatista, gvanrossum, init, pitrou
Date	2008-01-23.15:17:08
SpamBayes Score	0.08499283
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Message-id	<2c51ecee0801230717l55130366ldc39968e9a7bd1c8@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<1201099585.88.0.373241749138.issue1577@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> Before tackling this, I'd like a precision on os.rename(src, dst) > semantics. The documentation says "If dst is a directory, OSError will > be raised". However, under Linux, if src is a directory and dst is an > empty directory, dst is overwritten with src: I think the doc is incorrect. The rename() man page doesn't explicitly say that destination can not be directory. In fact, a small C program directly calling rename() (on SuSE 10) behaves exactly as your python script.

> Before tackling this, I'd like a precision on os.rename(src, dst)
> semantics. The documentation says "If dst is a directory, OSError will
> be raised". However, under Linux, if src is a directory and dst is an
> empty directory, dst is overwritten with src:

I think the doc is incorrect. The rename() man page doesn't explicitly
say that destination can not be directory. In fact, a small C program
directly calling rename() (on SuSE 10) behaves exactly as your python
script.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-23 15:17:10	draghuram	set	spambayes_score: 0.0849928 -> 0.08499283 recipients: + draghuram, gvanrossum, facundobatista, pitrou, init
2008-01-23 15:17:08	draghuram	link	issue1577 messages
2008-01-23 15:17:08	draghuram	create