[Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Mon Jan 18 16:03:38 CET 2010

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:34:14PM +0100, Masklinn wrote:

Isn't it a bit weird to include that to shutil though? shutil advertises itself as "a number of high-level operations on files and collections of files." and from what I understood it was a bunch of shell-type utility functions to easily copy, move or remove files and directories (that's pretty much all there is in it at this time).

Wouldn't it make more sense to put those "archive utils" functions/objects in a new module separate from shutil, dealing specifically with cross-archive APIs and linked from the current archive-specific modules (essentially, just take the current archiveutil, move it to the toplevel of the stdlib and maybe rename it)? It would also make the module much easier to find when searching through the module listing, I think.

+1

Oleg.

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