shutil rant

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Aahz [mailto:aahz at pythoncraft.com] 
> 
> In article <3ce4eebb.26302437 at News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
> Gerson Kurz <moc.q-dnan-p at p-nand-q.com> wrote:
> >
> >Now I know about general unix superiority and all that, but ... do I 
> >really have to resort to "import win32api" in order to make an exact 
> >file copy on windows?
> 
> Well, yes.  The problem is that win32all is not part of the 
> core Python distribution, so none of the core library 
> features can rely on it.  :-(

The Macintosh port seem to have full support for the Mac interfaces, so
isn't it about time the windows port got up to par? <wink>

Seriously though, you can't do "any serious" work on windows without the
win32 extensions. Since the ActiveState distribution comes bundled with
these, we've standardized on it here. (there are of course other
advantages to the ActiveState distribution also <wink>)

-- bjorn