Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python?

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Date	2015-05-14 20:43 +0200
Subject	Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python?
From	Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.13.1431628993.17265.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2015-05-14, Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> 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?
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>> It's bad enough when things are filesystem-dependent but this is
>> OS-dependent or even desktop-version-dependent in the case of Linux
>> distros, so not easy.
>
> Or even file-manager dependent.  I think some desktops support
> multiple file-manager (at least XFCE always used to) -- and there's
> probably no requirement that they all handle "trash" the same way.

Actually, there is. There are actual STANDARDS in Linux desktops. One
of them is the Trash Specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-1.0.html

This spec is implemented by Xfce, KDE, GNOME, PCManFM and probably many others.

And if you are looking for a mostly-compliant Python library/app (and
a shameless plug): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trashman/1.5.0

-- 
Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
PGP: 5EAAEA16

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Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-15 01:45 +1000
  Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-14 15:49 +0000
    Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 01:59 +1000
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-15 12:28 +1000
    Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-15 11:37 +1000
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 11:53 +1000
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 20:49 -0600
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 12:56 +1000
        Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-15 14:09 +1000
          Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-15 14:25 +1000
          Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-05-15 14:27 -0400
            Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-05-15 17:04 -0700
          Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-16 04:33 +1000
  Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> - 2015-05-14 18:32 +0100
    Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-14 18:11 +0000
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 20:43 +0200
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-05-14 12:32 -0700
    Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-15 12:03 +1000
      Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-14 22:27 -0400
  Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-05-14 11:29 -0700
  Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2015-05-18 03:31 -0700
    Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-18 14:46 +0100

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