Useful, robust shell utilities
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Sun Mar 3 11:55:02 EST 2002
"Donn Cave" <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
> Quoth Jonathan Gardner <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu>:
> | I tried to use the shutil module... and to tell you the truth, it stinks.
> | Is there an effort to make a robust, useful shutil module that has the
> | equivalent of the unix shell utilities?
>
> Go ahead. Then keep an eye out on comp.lang.python, and after some
> years pass finally someone will mention it: "it stinks", they'll
> say, with no particular explanation.
To those who've tried to use shutil, no explanation is needed, IMHO.
Cheers,
M.
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BUGS Never use this function. This function modifies its first
argument. The identity of the delimiting character is
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