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Author pitrou
Recipients Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date 2011-12-23.16:30:43
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> I'm good with None/True, but that would imply that for posix rename
> we'll need to implement the overwrite=False option...which would be a
> nice thing (the shell mv command has -i for that).

My point was rather to forbid False as a value (on all OSes) :)

> I think a warning would be good, because a unix programmer will assume
> rename will work the same on windows as it does on posix, and vice
> versa for a windows programmer.

It is already documented. I don't think we want to add a warning for
every documented peculiar piece of behaviour.
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2011-12-23 16:30:43pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle, neologix
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