On 5 January 2015 at 20:38, David Wilson <dw+python-ideas@hmmz.org> wrote:
I have no problem with this being included somehow in the standard library, but pathlib to me is all about the filesystem, whereas (as others have pointed out), the Recycle Bin and associated concepts on other OS relate pretty uniformly to the OS shell.
There are many shell-related concepts that could be nicely exposed, but again I don't think any of them belong in pathlib. For example, labels/tags, owner application, icon, visibility flags, etc.
Better tools for accessing typical extended file metadata would indeed be highly desirable (thumbnails/previews are another one that comes to mind). As with the recycle bin though, the generally preferred approach for standard library additions is incorporating existing modules that have been available through PyPI for some time, or else creating a derivative of such a project that meets other constraints of standard library inclusion (e.g. ipaddress vs the project it was based on, ipaddr). Unfortunately, most of the folks that need these cross-platform integration features are likely to be using a C/C++ toolkit that provides them (e.g. Gtk, Qt, wxWidgets), which significantly reduces the incentive for anyone to create a Python-specific abstraction that would be suitable for eventual inclusion in the standard library. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia