On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Nobody wrote:
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:28:32 +0430, Lee Harr wrote:
So, what is the best way to do this that will
behave the same across operating systems?
Delete the destination first, but after checking that it isn't the same as
the source.
On Windows, that last bit
On 17Sep2011 20:18, Nobody wrote:
| On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:28:32 +0430, Lee Harr wrote:
| > So, what is the best way to do this that will
| > behave the same across operating systems?
|
| Delete the destination first, but after checking that it isn't the same as
| the source.
This is usually a s
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:28:32 +0430, Lee Harr wrote:
> So, what is the best way to do this that will
> behave the same across operating systems?
Delete the destination first, but after checking that it isn't the same as
the source.
On Windows, that last bit is harder than it seems. A string-based
> shutil.move works for me, at least in Python 2.7. The docstring> doesn't
> seem to match the code
Thanks for checking that.
Looks like there is a closed report about the misleading
docs:http://bugs.python.org/issue12577
Closed a couple of months ago, but the docs have not madeit to the web ye
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Lee Harr wrote:
>
> I just got a bug report the heart of which is the
> difference between unix and windows in using
> os.rename
>
> (ie, "On Windows, if dst already exists, OSError will be raised")
>
> Hmm, I thought, maybe I'm supposed to use
> shutil here. That
