arsenetar / Send2trash
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================================================== Send2Trash -- Send files to trash on all platforms
Send2Trash is a small package that sends files to the Trash (or Recycle Bin) natively and on
all platforms. On OS X, it uses native FSMoveObjectToTrashSync
Cocoa calls. On Windows, it
uses native IFileOperation
call if on Vista or newer and pywin32 is installed or falls back
to SHFileOperation
calls. On other platforms, if PyGObject
_ and GIO
_ are available, it
will use this. Otherwise, it will fallback to its own implementation of the trash specifications from freedesktop.org
_.
ctypes
is used to access native libraries, so no compilation is necessary.
Send2Trash supports Python 2.7 and up (Python 3 is supported).
Status: Additional Help Welcome
Additional help is welcome for supporting this package. Specifically help with the OSX and Linux issues and fixes would be most appreciated.
Installation
You can download it with pip::
python -m pip install -U send2trash
or you can download the source from http://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash and install it with::
>>> python setup.py install
Usage
from send2trash import send2trash send2trash('some_file') send2trash(['some_file1', 'some_file2'])
On Freedesktop platforms (Linux, BSD, etc.), you may not be able to efficiently
trash some files. In these cases, an exception send2trash.TrashPermissionError
is raised, so that the application can handle this case. This inherits from
PermissionError
(OSError
on Python 2). Specifically, this affects
files on a different device to the user's home directory, where the root of the
device does not have a .Trash
directory, and we don't have permission to
create a .Trash-$UID
directory.
For any other problem, OSError
is raised.
.. _PyGObject: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject .. _GIO: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/ .. _trash specifications from freedesktop.org: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec/