Useful, robust shell utilities

[Michael Hudson]

"Donn Cave" <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

> Quoth Jonathan Gardner <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu>:
> | I tried to use the shutil module... and to tell you the truth, it stinks. 
> | Is there an effort to make a robust, useful shutil module that has the 
> | equivalent of the unix shell utilities?
> 
> Go ahead.  Then keep an eye out on comp.lang.python, and after some
> years pass finally someone will mention it:  "it stinks", they'll
> say, with no particular explanation.

To those who've tried to use shutil, no explanation is needed, IMHO.

Cheers,
M.

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