shutil.move doesn't work when only case changes

[ggambett]

BPO	1738441
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @orsenthil

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[ggambett]

shutil.move() appears to fail silently when the source and destination filenames only differ in case (ie "SomeFile" and "Somefile"). This is with python 2.4.3-18.fc6, on a case-sensitive filesystem (ext3), so this rename *is* meaningful.

[orsenthil]

I guess, this should be very much python 2.4.3-18.fc6 specific. While I have python 2.3.4, python 2.5, python 2.6a0. I am unable to reproduce this defect. Having said that, help(shutil.move) mentions about the various issues of moving the implementation glosses over.
Please provide some more details or anyone with python 2.4.3-18 should be able to verify it.

[birkenfeld]

This is quite strange.

Gabriel, could you try to use another Python version provided by Fedora, or
even a self-compiled one?

[ggambett]

Sorry, my bad. This happened in a FAT volume mounted somewhere in an ext3 tree so the rename wasn't meaningful within the volume. Still doing shutil.move(source, "__temp__") and shutil.move("__temp__", dest) did achieve the result I wanted.