[Python-Dev] Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sun May 2 20:36:55 CEST 2010

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello !

Often I have the contents to be written in a file at a given path that I know as well. I recently tried to find a function in stdlib to do that and to my surprise this is what I found :  - Such function exists  - It's distutils.fileutil.writefile IMO the last place where people'd look for such a function is inside distutils package. Besides I reviewed modules listed under File and_ _directory access category in Library Reference and found nothing even similar. Q:  - Is it a good idea to provide a similar function in  e.g. shutils module ?

A: Yes :)

Basically, anything useful in distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util can maove in Shutil. That's why I added make_archive (and unpack_archive)

Please add an issue, I'll work on adding this function,

Thanks Tarek

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