[Patches] [ python-Patches-448038 ] a move function for shutil.py

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Patches item #448038, was opened at 2001-08-05 02:08
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Status: Open
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Priority: 3
Submitted By: William McVey (wamcvey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: a move function for shutil.py

Initial Comment:
Although shutil.py has some nice copy functions but no
real equivalent of mv(1).  This is a very simple
implimentation (as in not a whole lot of stuff has been
implimented) but it's functional.  Simply calls rename,
and if that fails tries to copy and unlink.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-03-09 12:24

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Here is an attempt to provide error handling for copytree.
It collects all exceptions in a list, and raises them as
shutil.Error.

This would be inconsistent with shutil.rmtree, which offers
the choice of ignore errors,invoke an error callback, or
raise an exception at the problem.

Which of these alternatives would you like to see implemented?

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-08-08 17:41

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This is OK, but only perpetuates the problem with this
module -- it doesn't have a decent error handling strategy
(prints to stdout!?!?!?!).

If someone wants to put some more effort in this, I would
recommend at least adding an option to copytree() to control
error handling.

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