Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: About new function vs. new argument: this could be asked on python-dev (or on the core-mentorship list if you prefer an environment guaranteed friendly). If you look at copy and copy2, you’ll see that adding a function was chosen, but the names are not helpful at all. In more recent shutil development, arguments like copy_function and ignore (on copytree) were added to let people customize behavior without rewriting all the function logic. Guido van Rossum has a rule about not adding an argument when the value is always a constant, preferring another function instead, but I’m not sure I remember it clearly, so asking for other developers’ thoughts would be good.
---------- nosy: +eric.araujo stage: -> needs patch title: Implementation of shutil.move -> Add function similar to shutil.move that does not overwrite type: behavior -> feature request versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12741> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
