Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> It's nice if os.rename() can be atomic.
How about fixing the behavior in shutil.move()? Currently it tries
os.rename(src, dst) without checking for this case. For example:
>>> os.path.samefile('src', 'dst')
True
>>> shutil.move('src', 'dst')
'dst'
>>> os.path.exists('src')
True
>>> os.stat('src').st_nlink
2
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Note that there's nothing to fix, and not much to document in Windows. It works
as expected. A slight difference from the general case is that os.replace() is
required only when replacing a different file, not a hard link for the same
file.
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nosy: +eryksun
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