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

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Date 2015-05-14 20:49 -0600
Subject Re: Survey -- Move To Trash function in Python?
From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.22.1431658180.17265.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On May 14, 2015 7:55 PM, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Though when
> it comes to the bikeshedding phase, I'm sure there'll be some who say
> "if it can't be trashed, just hard delete it", and others who say "if
> it can't be trashed, raise an exception". And neither is truly wrong.)

The answer is "raise an exception". Moving to trash and deleting are
different operations, and one shouldn't be substituted for the other any
more than a failed attempt to create a hard link should create a soft link
instead.

If the user wants, they can catch the exception and delete the file
instead. Recovering from an accidental deletion would be more difficult.

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  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
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