Nick Coghlan wrote: > 2011/5/26 Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr>: > > Then, I wonder why shutil.copytree and shutil.rmtree are provided. > > Recursive rm/copy/chown/chmod are extremely useful in system > > administration scripts. Furthermore, it's not as simple as it seems > > because of symlinks, see for example http://bugs.python.org/issue4489 > > Rather than a fixed binary flag, I would suggest following the > precedent of copytree and rmtree, and provide recursive functionality > as a separate shutil function (i.e. shutil.chmodtree, > shutil.chowntree).
+1 > As noted, while these *can* be written manually, it is convenient to > have the logic for handling symlinks dealt with for you, as well as > not having to look up the particular incantation for correctly linking > os.walk and the relevant operations. This is exactly what I meant when saying that the -R option to chown and chmod shell commands is useful. I *could* do it without them, but writing the same logic every time with error handling would be cumbersome. Petri _______________________________________________ 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
