Hi! On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:58:15AM +0200, George Fischhof <geo...@fischhof.hu> 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/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/