[Python-Dev] A smarter shutil.copytree ? (original) (raw)
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Mon Apr 21 19:29:38 CEST 2008
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote: > I have submitted a patch for review here: http://bugs.python.org/issue2663 > > glob-style patterns or a callable (for complex cases) can be provided > to filter out files or directories. I'm not a big fan of the sequence-or-callable argument. Why not just make it a callable argument, and supply a utility function so that you can write something like:: excludefunc = shutil.excludingpatterns('*.tmp', 'testdir2') shutil.copytree(srcdir, dstdir, exclude=excludefunc) ?
Agreed. Type testing is fraught with problems.
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