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Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	draghuram, facundobatista, gvanrossum, init
Date	2007-12-11.17:24:03
SpamBayes Score	0.011714454
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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> Since we already have os.rename, wouldn't it be better for shutil.move() > to be closer to command line 'mv'? I think Facundo's approach should work. I'd rather not do this. It might cause disasters for code that expects the old semantics. If you want a way to do the "mv" semantics, propose a new API. shutil.move() still offers several things over os.rename(): deleting the target even if os.rename() doesn't (it doesn't on Windows); cross-filesystem moves implemented as copy.

> Since we already have os.rename, wouldn't it be better for shutil.move()
> to be closer to command line 'mv'? I think Facundo's approach should work.

I'd rather not do this. It might cause disasters for code that expects
the old semantics. If you want a way to do the "mv" semantics, propose
a new API.

shutil.move() still offers several things over os.rename(): deleting
the target even if os.rename() doesn't (it doesn't on Windows);
cross-filesystem moves implemented as copy.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-12-11 17:24:04	gvanrossum	set	spambayes_score: 0.0117145 -> 0.011714454 recipients: + gvanrossum, facundobatista, draghuram, init
2007-12-11 17:24:04	gvanrossum	link	issue1577 messages
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