Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > As a Windows programmer I am quite surprised to read this thread with > information that on Linux os.rename() overwrites files without questions, > so as I Windows programmer I want os.rename() to stop that.
As a Windows programmer, you are not really qualified to criticize the behaviour of Unix systems. As a Linux programmer, I don't want to see the default behaviour changed. > No arguments == no consensus. We don't strive to achieve consensus. Agreement among the majority of core developers is enough, and you aren't part of the population anyway. ---------- _______________________________________ 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