anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment: 2011/12/23 Charles-François Natali <rep...@bugs.python.org> > > > One of the Python advantages is providing predictable cross-platform > > behavior. If we can't introduce nice API without BC break, it is not > > a reason to introduce ulgy API. > > We cannot make rename() overwrite existing files by default (on Windows). > It's out of question, too much code might rely on this, and this may very > well introduce security flaws. > If you're concerned with the semantics difference between platforms, well, > there's not much we can do about it now. Java behaves in the same way, for > example. >
I propose quite the opposite. rename() should not overwrite existing files by default. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
