Hi Jason, the status of os and shutil became this because of C functions in implementation (I got something similar answer before) ...
What do you think, what would be a good way to solve this - add stuff from os to shutil - add stuff from os and shutil to pathlib - create a new module on top of os, shutil and pathlib (we could name it for example filelib George 2018-03-18 19:43 GMT+01:00 Jason Maldonis <jjmaldo...@gmail.com>: > Surely shutil is a *high* level modules. >> os is a low level module that shutil builds on. >> Adding the missing pieces to shutil would make it the place to go to do >> file operations. >> Pity its not called filelib. >> > > Gotcha, thank you! shutil being a high level library complicates things... > So we have two "high-level" libraries (pathlib and shutil) and both of them > provide different pieces of useful functionality. Maybe I am starting to > see why this is complicated. Thanks for reading my above reply and taking > the time to respond. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > >
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