On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have submitted a patch for review here: http://bugs.python.org/issue2663 > > > > glob-style patterns or a callable (for complex cases) can be provided > > to filter out files or directories. > > I'm not a big fan of the sequence-or-callable argument. Why not just > make it a callable argument, and supply a utility function so that you > can write something like:: > > exclude_func = shutil.excluding_patterns('*.tmp', 'test_dir2') > shutil.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir, exclude=exclude_func) > > ?
Agreed. Type testing is fraught with problems. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
