On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
I have submitted a patch for review here: http://bugs.python.org/issue2663
glob-style patterns or a callable (for complex cases) can be provided to filter out files or directories.
I'm not a big fan of the sequence-or-callable argument. Why not just make it a callable argument, and supply a utility function so that you can write something like::
exclude_func = shutil.excluding_patterns('*.tmp', 'test_dir2') shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, exclude=exclude_func)
I made another draft based on a single callable argument to try out: http://bugs.python.org/file10073/shutil.copytree.filtering.patch
The callable takes the src directory + its content as a list, and returns filter eligible for exclusion
FWIW, that looks better to me.
That makes me wonder, like Alexander said on the bug tracker: In the glob-style patterns callable, do we want to deal with absolute paths ?
I think that it would be okay to document that shutil.ignore_patterns() only accepts patterns matching individual filenames (not complex paths). If someone needs to do something with absolute paths, then they can write their own 'ignore' function, right? Steve -- I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy