Guido van Rossum added the comment: We should first decide what should happen. While for command line tools "mv FILE DIR" is established syntax for "mv FILE DIR/`basename FILE`", I'm not at all sure that shutil.move(src, dst) should do the same. I think it should be closer to the UNIX os.rename() semantics which promises that src *replaces* dst. If dst is an empty dir, it is removed using rmdir(); if it is a non-empty dir, the removal fails and hence the move fails. I think this is what shutil.move() should do too. (Even if it can't make the atomicity promises that UNIX makes.)
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