[Python-ideas] Implementation of shutil.move
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 14:17:11 CEST 2011
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
> If it can't do things safely, it shouldn't do them at all.
This pretty much sums up the reason why the standard lib is lacking in
this area - it's hard to do anything more than the unsafe basics that
isn't providing a *false* sense of security for at least some use
cases. Good exploration of the possibilities, though.
Cheers,
Nick.
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