[issue35951] os.renames() creates directories if original name doesn't exist

[Chris Jerdonek]

Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> added the comment:

Lacking permissions seems very different to me from the source directory or file not existing. For example, in the example I provided, I did have the needed permissions.

Incidentally (and this is a separate documentation issue), the note seems unclear as to whether "the leaf directory or file" the user lacks permissions to remove is in reference to the "rightmost path segments of the old name" being pruned away, or the new directory structure to be removed on failure.

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