Send file to trash natively under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Project description
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 (and ugly) SHFileOperation win32 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).
Installation
You can download it with pip:
pip install Send2Trash
or you can download the source from http://github.com/hsoft/send2trash and install it with:
>>> python setup.py install
Usage
>>> from send2trash import send2trash >>> send2trash('some_file')
When there’s a problem OSError is raised.
Changes
Version 1.3.0 – 2013/07/19
Added support for Gnome’s GIO.
Merged Python 3 and Python 2 vesion in a single codebase.
Version 1.2.0 – 2011/03/16
Improved plat_other to follow freedesktop.org trash specification.
Version 1.1.0 – 2010/10/18
Converted compiled modules to ctypes so that cross-platform compilation isn’t necessary anymore.
Version 1.0.2 – 2010/07/10
Fixed bugs with external volumes in plat_other.
Version 1.0.1 – 2010/04/19
Fixed memory leak in OS X module.
Version 1.0.0 – 2010/04/07
Initial Release
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