Message 61585 - Python tracker
> 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.