Message 150193 - Python tracker

Message150193

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Trundle, draghuram, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, tarek, techtonik, vstinner
Date	2011-12-23.19:35:53
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> os.rename(overwrite=False) by default will do less harm than the opposite, Disagreed. > Then I believe that having a small chance of overwriting file just created > at exactly the same moment on a POSIX is a small price to pay for function > that does safety check before rename on a platform that doesn't have such > functionality at all. Disagreed. If you need the functionality, it's one additional line of code. Not every trivial function deserves to be in the stdlib.

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> os.rename(overwrite=False) by default will do less harm than the opposite,

Disagreed.

> Then I believe that having a small chance of overwriting file just created
> at exactly the same moment on a POSIX is a small price to pay for function
> that does safety check before rename on a platform that doesn't have such
> functionality at all.

Disagreed.
If you need the functionality, it's *one* additional line of code. Not
every trivial function deserves to be in the stdlib.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-12-23 19:35:54	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, vstinner, draghuram, techtonik, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, Trundle, neologix
2011-12-23 19:35:53	pitrou	link	issue8828 messages
2011-12-23 19:35:53	pitrou	create