Hi!
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:58:15AM +0200, George Fischhof <george@fischhof.hu> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a task to synchronize folders but some files should be remained
> untouched.
Synchronize folders using rmtree()? I don't get it.
> I think this is a very common task.
I think it is not that common.
> I found that shutil.copytree() has ignore_patterns() but rmtree() has not.
>
> So here comes my idea: add ignore_patterns() to rmtree() it is a good
rmtree() is like ``rm -r``, not like ``find . -name *.pyc -delete``.
> feature and makes the functions symmetric.
Why impose artificial symmetry?
> BR,
> George
Oleg.
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