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Re: Deleting a file?

References <iqsdtn$va2$1@speranza.aioe.org>
Date 2011-05-16 23:06 -0400
Subject Re: Deleting a file?
From Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1654.1305601607.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, garyr <garyr@fidalgo.net> wrote:
> A file can be deleted by opening it with mode os.O_TEMPORARY and then
> closing it. How can a file be moved to the Recycle Bin, a la Windows?

I see a send2trash module (http://hg.hardcoded.net/send2trash and
http://www.hardcoded.net/articles/send-files-to-trash-on-all-platforms.htm)

The source code looks pretty straightforward, but I don't think
there's anything in the standard library that does that.

-- 
Jerry

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Deleting a file? "garyr" <garyr@fidalgo.net> - 2011-05-16 14:23 -0700
  Re: Deleting a file? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-17 11:39 +1000
  Re: Deleting a file? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 23:06 -0400
    Re: Deleting a file? "garyr" <garyr@fidalgo.net> - 2011-05-17 07:43 -0700

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