[Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

[Michael Foord]

On 18/01/2010 13:46, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Masklinn wrote:
>
>> On 18 Jan 2010, at 13:40 , Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>
>>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>>> There's one remaining external call for "zip" done if the zip module
>>>> is not found, but I am happy to remove it and throw an exception if
>>>> it's not found, and keep the external "zip" call on Distutils side, so
>>>> shutil stays 100% stdlib-powered.
>>>
>>> +1 for that approach. These changes all sound like nice additions to
>>> shutil, and hooray for every module that gets adopted by an active
>>> maintainer :)
>>
>> Isn't it a bit weird to include that to shutil though? shutil 
>> advertises itself as "a number of high-level operations on files and 
>> collections of files." 

Well - isn't what's being proposed "a number of high-level operations on 
files and collections of files." ?

>> and from what I understood it was a bunch of shell-type utility functions

like tar and zip? :-)

>> to easily copy, move or remove files and directories (that's pretty 
>> much all there is in it at this time).
>>

I don't think the additions are out of place prima-facie.

>> Wouldn't it make more sense to put those "archive utils" 
>> functions/objects in a new module separate from shutil, dealing 
>> specifically with cross-archive APIs and linked from the current 
>> archive-specific modules (essentially, just take the current 
>> archive_util, move it to the toplevel of the stdlib and maybe rename 
>> it)? It would also make the module much easier to find when searching 
>> through the module listing, I think.
>
> +1
>

Proliferation of modules is itself a bad thing though.

Michael


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