Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: "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") ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com