[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

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[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

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[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: This has been discussed on Python-Ideas some time ago, possibly more than once. See here for one such (short) discussion: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-April/020148.html I think that move-to-trash functionality is quite useful, I needed

[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

Virgil Dupras added the comment: For further references, there's also https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-December/030547.html which is a deeper discussion and brings even more arguments against it. Even though I'd love to have some of my code integrated into the core,

[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

R. David Murray added the comment: Heh, dangerous is in the eye of the beholder. I don't even have a trash bin on my system (no desktop, just X and shell windows). It is almost always the case that an application written in python that wants to get rid of a file *does* want to really

[issue24185] Add Function for Sending File to Trash (or Recycling Bin)

New submission from Taylor Marks: When you have a file that you don't think you need anymore, the proper thing to do with it is move it to the Trash (or Recycling Bin, if you're on Windows.) The standard library, however, doesn't offer any way of doing this currently. Instead, the only thing