[Python-Dev] Re: Alleged deprecation of shutils

[Guido van Rossum]

> So, a goal for 2.2: getting moving/copying/deleting of files and
> directories working properly (ie. using native APIs) on all major
> supported platforms, with all the legwork that implies.  We're not
> really very far from this now, are we?  Perhaps (the functionality of)
> shutil.{rmtree,copy,copytree} should move into os and if necessary be
> implemented in nt or dos or mac or whatever.  Any others?

Given that it's currently in shutil, please just consider improving
that, unless you believe that the basic API should be completely
different.  This sounds like something PEP-worthy!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)