From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:05:44 +0000 (+0800) Subject: merge from 3.2 - Fix closes issue12577 - clarify shutil.move documentation. Patch... X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60bf489e8aab38519cbc5c9683574d01a52e5c65;p=python merge from 3.2 - Fix closes issue12577 - clarify shutil.move documentation. Patch suggestion by Catalin Iacob --- diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 1b160d892a..ed622addc9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -163,8 +163,10 @@ Directory and files operations Recursively move a file or directory to another location. - If the destination is on the current filesystem, then simply use rename. - Otherwise, copy src (with :func:`copy2`) to the dst and then remove src. + Uses :func:`os.rename` to perform the move. If it fails, for reasons such as + when *src* and *dst* are on different filesystems or in case of windows where + rename is not supported when *dst* exists, fallback to copying *src* (with + :func:`copy2`) to the *dst* and then remove *src*. .. versionadded:: 2.3