New submission from Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com>: pathlib.Path wants the rmtree method from shutil
I think we need this method for a couple of reasons. 1. in shell, rm has the -r flag - In Python, we use shutil.rmtree as a best practice for this. 2. I prefer to teach my students about pathlib.Path as opposed to other ways of dealing with files. It's a great abstraction. But it's somewhat leaky, especially when it comes to recursively deleting a directory with its contents, as I now need to import rmtree from shutil. Perhaps we need this as a method in the abstract base class that recursively uses the methods provided by the concrete implementations. I can look at the rmtree method for a reference implementation. Perhaps we should just give Path.rmdir a default recursive argument? Default would be False, of course, to retain current behavior. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 316511 nosy: Aaron Hall priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: pathlib.Path wants an rmtree method type: enhancement versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33498> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
