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Author pitrou
Recipients Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date 2011-12-23.20:09:40
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> As a Windows programmer I am quite surprised to read this thread with
> information that on Linux os.rename() overwrites files without questions,
> so as I Windows programmer I want os.rename() to stop that.

As a Windows programmer, you are not really qualified to criticize the
behaviour of Unix systems.
As a Linux programmer, I don't want to see the default behaviour
changed.

> No arguments == no consensus.

We don't strive to achieve consensus. Agreement among the majority of
core developers is enough, and you aren't part of the population anyway.
History
Date User Action Args
2011-12-23 20:09:41pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle, neologix
2011-12-23 20:09:40pitroulinkissue8828 messages
2011-12-23 20:09:40pitroucreate