Re: [Python-Dev] A smarter shutil.copytree ?

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Steven Bethard steven.bethard@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek@gmail.com wrote:

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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)

?

Agreed. Type testing is fraught with problems.