[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e5de4ee6aa4a by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.4': clarify behavior of shutil.move when destination exists (closes #22933) https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e5de4ee6aa4a New changeset 4502e598fe26 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7': clarify behavi

[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

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[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

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[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

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[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

R. David Murray added the comment: I think you are correct that that sentence should just be deleted. The preceding sentence should start "If the destination is an existing directory..." I also wonder if shutil should be changed to use os.replace, but that is a separate issue. -- nos

[issue22933] Misleading sentence in doc for shutil.move

New submission from newbie: First sentence of 3rd paragraph of 10.10. "shutil" documentation for shutil.move command, "The destination directory must not already exist", is misleading and contradicts other information in the entry. I took it to mean that if dst did not exist, python would cre