[Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] #36 option for disallowing file overwrites

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

Since 3.3, Python's standard `open()` supports the "mode" argument value
 'x' open for exclusive creation, failing if the file already exists
 which could help with the implementation of such an option.




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** [feature-requests:#36] option for disallowing file overwrites**

**Status:** pending
**Group:** 
**Created:** Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:43 PM UTC by Jakub Wilk
**Last Updated:** Sat Mar 16, 2013 05:57 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


A Debian user complained that if you use a wildcard as input file name, and the wildcard unexpectedly expands to two names, then rst2html will overwrite your files:
http://bugs.debian.org/654690

Would if be possible to add an option for not overwriting output files, that you could add to your configuration file, and later override from command line if needed?



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