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Virgil Dupras bb8ed834da Add same-codebase support for python 2.7.
When I opted for two codebases for python2/python3,
Send2Trash used C modules and it was easier to just have two
packages. With the ctypes version, supporting both python
versions becomes trivial and it's much more convenient to
merge them back into a single codebase.

I've only tested this code on Linux. I've converted plat_osx and
plat_win, but they only work theoretically.
2013-07-19 18:42:32 -04:00

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Send2Trash -- Send files to trash on all platforms
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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, it follows 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
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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
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>>> from send2trash import send2trash
>>> send2trash('some_file')
When there's a problem ``OSError`` is raised.