On Fri, 15 May 2015 03:32 am, Dave Farrance wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >>I'd like to do a little survey, and get a quick show of hands. >> >>How many people have written GUI or text-based applications or scripts >>where a "Move file to trash" function would be useful? >> >>Would you like to see that in the standard library, even if it meant that >>the library had feature-freeze and could gain no more functionality? > > It's bad enough when things are filesystem-dependent but this is > OS-dependent or even desktop-version-dependent in the case of Linux > distros, so not easy. > > E.g. in the case of KDE4, the command-line is: > $ kioclient move <filename> trash:/ > > ...and for KDE3 it was: > $ kfmclient move <filename> trash:/
I'm not sure if you intend that as a vote in favour or against the idea :-) The idea is that the library will hide that complexity from you, so your python code will just say: import shutil shutil.move_to_trash(filename) and it will work on any supported OS, filesystem and desktop. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
