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Author draghuram
Recipients draghuram, facundobatista, gvanrossum, init, pitrou
Date 2008-01-22.22:19:18
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`shutil.move(source_file, destination_dir)` does move source_file to
destination_dir but the point is that even when source and destinations
are on the same file system, it still "copies" the data when there is no
need for it. The reason is explained in the very first comment.
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