New submission from David Benjamin:
This is somewhat of a nitpick. os.rename's documentation says "If dst is a
directory, OSError will be raised". On Unix, this isn't completely true. If the
source is a directory and the destination is an empty directory, it'll
overwrite the former with the latter. (Actually if the source is a directory
the inverse is true; if dst is a file, OSError will be raised.)
In [1]: import os
In [2]: os.mkdir("aaa")
In [3]: open("aaa/blah", "w").close()
In [4]: os.mkdir("bbb")
In [5]: os.rename("aaa", "bbb")
In [6]: os.listdir("bbb")
Out[6]: ['blah']
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 173285
nosy: David.Benjamin, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.rename documentation slightly inaccurate
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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