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). 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. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
