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bpo-28356: Document os.rename() behavior on Windows for differing vol… 
…umes (GH-27376)

(cherry picked from commit e098137)

Co-authored-by: Ryan Ozawa <ryan.ozawa21@gmail.com>
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will fail with an :exc:`OSError` subclass in a number of cases:

On Windows, if *dst* exists a :exc:`FileExistsError` is always raised.
The operation may fail if *src* and *dst* are on different filesystems. Use
:func:`shutil.move` to support moves to a different filesystem.

On Unix, if *src* is a file and *dst* is a directory or vice-versa, an
:exc:`IsADirectoryError` or a :exc:`NotADirectoryError` will be raised
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