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

[Guido van Rossum]

> >>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
>     GE> Wouldn't it be better to fix these functions on the Mac
>     GE> instead of depriving everyone else of them?
> 
> Either way, shutil sure is useful!

Yes, but deceptively so.  What should we do?  Anyway, it doesn't
appear to be officially deprecated yet (can't see it in the docs) and
I think it may be best to keep it that way.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)