Recovering deleted files

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu Dec 26 17:37:48 EST 2013


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> If I read the documents properly, shutil.move() does not just blindly
> delete files (it does a copy/delete if crossing file systems, otherwise it
> just does a rename).

What difference does that make? Regardless of whether you do a copy/delete
or rename, whatever file was overridden by the move is still overridden.


-- 
Steven




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