Akira Kitada <akit...@gmail.com> added the comment: 'ignore' was introduced in Python 2.6 but distutils has to keep Python 2.3 compatible.
See: http://bugs.python.org/issue5052 So I guess you have to wait some more years before dropping distutils.dir_util and distutils.file_util. ---------- nosy: +akitada _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4843> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com