On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Steven Bethard wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé
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)
Even if a glob pattern filter is considered useful enough to be worth special-casing, the glob capability should also be exposed via something like your excluding_patterns constructor and additionally as a function that can be called by another function intended for use as a callable argument. If it is not, then doing something like "files matching these glob patterns except for those matching this non-glob-expressible condition and also those files matching this second non-glob-expressible condition" becomes painful because the glob part essentially needs to be re-implemented. Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist