On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 02:45:25PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Is there a reason the standard library needs both os.removedirs and > shutil.rmtree? They seem awful similar to me (I can see they aren't really > identical). Ditto for os.renames and shutil.move. Presuming they are all > really needed, is there some reason they don't all belong in the same > module?
os.removedirs() only removes directories, it will fail to remove a non-empty directory, for example. It also doesn't have the ignore_errors/onerror arguments [1]. os.renames() is different from shutil.move() in that it also creates intermediate directories (and deletes any left empty). So they're not identical, but I do agree they should be consolidated and moved into one module. I'd say shutil, both because the os module is already awfully crowded, and because these functions are "high-level operations on files and collections of files" rather than "a more portable way of using operating system dependent functionality [...]". Johannes [1] That may actually be a good thing, though. It was a pain to keep those working backwards-compatibly when shutil.rmtree was recently rewritten. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
