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

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python?
Date	2015-05-14 18:11 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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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. 

For this to work "right" you're going to need to be able to figure out
which desktop you're using: Linux systems often have multiple desktops
available.  Most of mine only have one, but some of them have as many
as three.

Then you might have to determine which file-manager you're using. 
Some of my desktops use file browsers that don't have any concept of
"trash".  And some of them don't have any file-browsers or "trash"
folders at all.

Sounds pretty nasty...

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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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