Alexander Mohr added the comment: Ya. The original request I think is ok because by allowing that flag it will replace files and dirs. On Mar 14, 2014 7:15 PM, "R. David Murray" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > R. David Murray added the comment: > > I don't know what "the method already allows for existing files" means. > Since the target directory can't exist, there can be no existing files. > > In unix, this kind of capability is provided by a combination of shell > globbing and 'cp -r', and by default it does replace existing files. So it > would be reasonable for exists_ok to mean exactly that: replace anything > that currently exists, if it does. > > I think that would be a reasonable API, but the implementation isn't as > simple as just passing through the exists_ok flag to makedirs. > > I do not think that *just* making it OK for the destination directory to > exist would be a good API. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue20849> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20849> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
