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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 (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). Status: Maintainer needed ------------------------- I haven't had access to a Windows or MacOS environment for years now. I don't care for those platforms as much as I used to. I also don't use this library any more. This is the most popular library I've authored and many people and projects rely on it. I don't intend on letting it go broken. I am, however, wanting to get rid of its maintainership burden. It's not a big burden, but without access to Windows or MacOS, it can make reviewing PRs a but tricky: I have to blind-merge them. That makes me a rather bad maintainer for this library. So, for the good of the project, it should be someone else. However, being a relatively popular library makes this task a little tricky. As we've seen in the NPM world recently, it has security implications. Therefore, I don't intend on passing this to anyone. If you have some clout or if I can otherwise have confidence that you'll handle the library responsibly, then please contact me and I'll gladly pass this on. 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') 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/