Alleged deprecation of shutils (Re: [Python-Dev] Function in os module for available disk space, why)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:37:00 +1200 (NZST)


"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:

> XXX The functions here don't copy the resource fork or other metadata on Mac.

Wouldn't it be better to fix these functions on the Mac
instead of depriving everyone else of them?

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