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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 88c0eaa..f8a1b60 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ 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*. .. function:: disk_usage(path) |