GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python — pull request #236 by jgeewax (2014-10-12 16:32:04+00:00)
Title: Updated docstring on Key.rename() with a warning.

I have a pending request to the GCS team asking if this is a reasonable thing to have exposed, however based on our conversations in #99 and #224 it seems that it needs to exist regardless (if we don't provide it, people will just do this on their own).

That said, we need to be clear about what's happening under the hood in the short part of the docstring. If someone is frequently "renaming" 5TB objects (that's the maximum size currently), this could actually change their bill a lot and make the GCS API do some ridiculous amounts of work. For small objects this shouldn't really be a problem.