Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python? Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <5554c318$0$12999$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1431618592 14931 67.130.15.94 (14 May 2015 15:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:49:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90607 On 2015-05-14, 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? How would you even define what "move to trash" means in a standard way? Even withing the limited context of something like a mail client, it's meaning varies depending on mail store format or which IMAP server you're talking to. Or are you assuming the only thing that can be "moved to trash" is a file? > 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? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having fun at HITCHHIKING to CINCINNATI gmail.com or FAR ROCKAWAY!!