[docs] [issue16278] os.rename documentation slightly inaccurate

[Todd Rovito]

Todd Rovito added the comment:

Chris,
   That is an excellent suggestion.  I modified my OSRenameCombinations.py program and attached.  This program prints a table with the src parameters as columns and the dst as rows.  Hopefully it will show up ok in the bug tracker.


For Unix
                              src_file                       src_directory_empty            src_directory_not_empty        src_file_or_directory_not_exist 
dst_file_exist                 rename overwrite               raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 
dst_not_exist                  rename                         rename                         rename                         raises OSError                 
dst_directory_empty            raises OSError                 rename overwrite               rename overwrite               raises OSError                 
dst_directory_not_empty        raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 
For Windows
                              src_file                       src_directory_empty            src_directory_not_empty        src_file_or_directory_not_exist 
dst_file_exist                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 
dst_not_exist                  rename                         rename                         rename                         raises OSError                 
dst_directory_empty            raises OSError                 raises FileExistsError         raises FileExistsError         raises OSError                 
dst_directory_not_empty        raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError                 raises OSError

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27915/OSRenameCombinations.py

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