On Jan 1, 2015, at 13:47, Markus Unterwaditzer <markus@unterwaditzer.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 11:35:26PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 12:37:55PM +0200, Ram Rachum wrote:
So maybe we can add a function to the `os` module that sends a file to the recycle bin, and a constant that will say whether the current OS supports this? Then we could have code like this:
The os module is for low-level operating-system functions. "Send to trash" is neither low-level nor part of the OS per se, it is part of the desktop environment.
I'm not convinced that this needs to be in the standard library, but if it is, I think that the os module is completely the wrong place for it. I think, in order of preference:
1) shutil 2) pathlib
is the right place.
Maybe the right way to do this is to create a new module, stdlib or not, for desktop-related APIs. Besides a `recycle` function this might, for example, include a subset of pyxdg's functionality.
That's a great idea. To do something as simple as getting special directory names or creating a shortcut/alias/bookmark (as opposed to a symlink) or, yes, trashing a file in a cross-platform way requires something way too heavy-duty (like Qt or JUCE)... or copying code off some blog (that doesn't actually work on localized Windows or in a sandboxed OS X app or on non-Debianish Linux, but you won't know that until you think to test it). A third-party module can get away with 90% support. Most Mac users are on 10.8+, most apps don't fork, most Linux users who care about the desktop have a GNOME-compatible one; etc.
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