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Author pitrou
Recipients Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date 2011-10-24.00:27:05
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"The solution? Let's remember that metadata changes are atomic. Rename is such a case."

This is from a MSDN blog, I would hope he knows what he's talking about.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/12/28/507866.aspx

(MoveFileEx appears in Windows XP, which is fine: in Python 3.3, "Windows 2000 and Windows platforms which set COMSPEC to command.com are no longer supported due to maintenance burden")
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2011-10-24 00:27:07pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle, neologix
2011-10-24 00:27:07pitrousetmessageid: <1319416027.54.0.54295917045.issue8828@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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