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Author	neologix
Recipients	Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date	2011-12-23.17:32:05
SpamBayes Score	0.00025235364
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Message-id	<1324661526.62.0.617398808228.issue8828@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I propose quite the opposite. rename() should not overwrite existing > files by default. 1. That's not what I understood from: > os.rename(overwrite=True) to produce consistent cross-platform > behavior. 2. The above argument on backward incompatible change applies in exactly the same way (just exchange Windows for POSIX). 3. As explained above, it can not be done reliably on POSIX (TOCTTOU race).

> I propose quite the opposite. rename() should not overwrite existing
> files by default.

1. That's not what I understood from:
> os.rename(overwrite=True) to produce consistent cross-platform 
> behavior.

2. The above argument on backward incompatible change applies in exactly the same way (just exchange Windows for POSIX).

3. As explained above, it can not be done reliably on POSIX (TOCTTOU race).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-12-23 17:32:06	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle
2011-12-23 17:32:06	neologix	set	messageid: <1324661526.62.0.617398808228.issue8828@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-12-23 17:32:06	neologix	link	issue8828 messages
2011-12-23 17:32:05	neologix	create