Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > In my opinion, anyone wanting to deal with low-level details like > mtimes and modes is probably not using shutil
As a moderately experienced UNIX user, I would say that file permissions are not low-level details. I see shutil functions as convenient wrappers to automate looping and calling a function, but I do care about file permissions. If people are still interested in this modification, I think it would need a backward-compatible change, for example in the form of a new argument ignore_permission_errors, or a more generic onerror callback like rmtree has. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1438480> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
