anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
> > os.rename(overwrite=False) by default will do less harm than the > opposite, > > Disagreed. > Fine. No arguments == no consensus. > > Then I believe that having a small chance of overwriting file just > created > > at exactly the same moment on a POSIX is a small price to pay for > function > > that does safety check before rename on a platform that doesn't have such > > functionality at all. > > Disagreed. > If you need the functionality, it's *one* additional line of code. Not > every trivial function deserves to be in the stdlib. 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. I always guard my code against accidental rewrite by catching the exception. EAFP and all that stuff. But there is no way I can ask forgiveness when files are already overwritten. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
