New submission from Brian Curtin <br...@python.org>: Attached is a patch to return the final destination of files or directories sent through shutil's copy, copy2, and move functions. This removes the need to construct the destination path on your own.
This is especially useful for copy/copy2 where you copy a file into a directory and need to know that resulting path. Rather than calling os.path.join(dest, os.path.basename(source)) you could get that path from copy/copy2 (which does that join internally). Patch has docs and tests. ---------- assignee: brian.curtin components: Library (Lib) files: shutil_return_values.diff keywords: needs review, patch messages: 160363 nosy: brian.curtin priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Return destination values in some shutil functions type: enhancement versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25522/shutil_return_values.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14772> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
