2017-05-05 13:02 GMT+02:00 Oleg Broytman <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:58:15AM +0200, George Fischhof < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I have a task to synchronize folders but some files should be remained > > untouched. > > Synchronize folders using rmtree()? I don't get it. > > > I think this is a very common task. > > I think it is not that common. > > > I found that shutil.copytree() has ignore_patterns() but rmtree() has > not. > > > > So here comes my idea: add ignore_patterns() to rmtree() it is a good > > rmtree() is like ``rm -r``, not like ``find . -name *.pyc -delete``. > > > feature and makes the functions symmetric. > > Why impose artificial symmetry? > > > BR, > > George > > Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ [email protected] > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
Actually it would be good if copytree() would be able to overwrite files and directories. George
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