[Python-Dev] Tests failing on Windows with TESTFN

eryk sun eryksun at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 10:54:39 EDT 2018


On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>          try:
>              os.rename(new_file.name, self._path)
>          except FileExistsError:
> -            os.remove(self._path)
> +            temp_name = _create_temporary_name(self._path)
> +            os.rename(self._path, temp_name)
>              os.rename(new_file.name, self._path)
> +            os.remove(temp_name)

This should call os.replace to allow the file system to replace the
existing file.


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