Esa Peuha added the comment:

This looks like a documentation bug. Functions in module os are usually just 
thin wrappers around the underlying OS functions, and POSIX states that doing 
nothing is the correct thing to do here. (It is arguably a bug in early Unix 
implementations that got mistakenly codified as part of POSIX, and it is 
certainly inconsistent with the POSIX requirement that the mv command *must* 
remove the source file in this case, but there is nothing Python can do about 
that.)

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nosy: +Esa.Peuha

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