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.

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