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Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:29:19 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 05/14/2015 08:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'd like to do a little survey, and get a quick show of hands.
>
> How many people have written GUI or text-based applications or scripts where
> a "Move file to trash" function would be useful?

Never.

> Would you like to see that in the standard library, even if it meant that
> the library had feature-freeze and could gain no more functionality?

Nope.

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~Ethan~