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  1. ==================================================
  2. Send2Trash -- Send files to trash on all platforms
  3. ==================================================
  4. Send2Trash is a small package that sends files to the Trash (or Recycle Bin) *natively* and on
  5. *all platforms*. On OS X, it uses native ``FSMoveObjectToTrashSync`` Cocoa calls, on Windows, it
  6. uses native (and ugly) ``SHFileOperation`` win32 calls. On other platforms, if `PyGObject`_ and
  7. `GIO`_ are available, it will use this. Otherwise, it will fallback to its own implementation
  8. of the `trash specifications from freedesktop.org`_.
  9. ``ctypes`` is used to access native libraries, so no compilation is necessary.
  10. Send2Trash supports Python 2.7 and up (Python 3 is supported).
  11. Installation
  12. ------------
  13. You can download it with pip::
  14. pip install Send2Trash
  15. or you can download the source from http://github.com/hsoft/send2trash and install it with::
  16. >>> python setup.py install
  17. Usage
  18. -----
  19. >>> from send2trash import send2trash
  20. >>> send2trash('some_file')
  21. On Freedesktop platforms (Linux, BSD, etc.), you may not be able to efficiently
  22. trash some files. In these cases, an exception ``send2trash.TrashPermissionError``
  23. is raised, so that the application can handle this case. This inherits from
  24. ``PermissionError`` (``OSError`` on Python 2). Specifically, this affects
  25. files on a different device to the user's home directory, where the root of the
  26. device does not have a ``.Trash`` directory, and we don't have permission to
  27. create a ``.Trash-$UID`` directory.
  28. For any other problem, ``OSError`` is raised.
  29. .. _PyGObject: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject
  30. .. _GIO: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/
  31. .. _trash specifications from freedesktop.org: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec/
  32. Changes
  33. =======
  34. Version 1.5.0 -- 2018/02/16
  35. ---------------------------
  36. * More specific error when failing to create XDG fallback trash directory (#20)
  37. * Windows: Workaround for long paths (#23)
  38. Version 1.4.2 -- 2017/11/17
  39. ---------------------------
  40. * Fix incompatibility with Python 3.6 on Windows. (#18)
  41. Version 1.4.1 -- 2017/08/07
  42. ---------------------------
  43. * Fix crash on Windows introduced in v1.4.0. Oops... (#14)
  44. Version 1.4.0 -- 2017/08/07
  45. ---------------------------
  46. * Use ``bytes`` instead of ``str`` for internal path handling in ``plat_other``. (#13)
  47. Version 1.3.1 -- 2017/07/31
  48. ---------------------------
  49. * Throw ``WindowsError`` instead of ``OSError`` in ``plat_win``. (#7)
  50. * Fix ``TypeError`` on python 2 in ``plat_other``. (#12)
  51. Version 1.3.0 -- 2013/07/19
  52. ---------------------------
  53. * Added support for Gnome's GIO.
  54. * Merged Python 3 and Python 2 versions in a single codebase.
  55. Version 1.2.0 -- 2011/03/16
  56. ---------------------------
  57. * Improved ``plat_other`` to follow freedesktop.org trash specification.
  58. Version 1.1.0 -- 2010/10/18
  59. ---------------------------
  60. * Converted compiled modules to ctypes so that cross-platform compilation isn't necessary anymore.
  61. Version 1.0.2 -- 2010/07/10
  62. ---------------------------
  63. * Fixed bugs with external volumes in plat_other.
  64. Version 1.0.1 -- 2010/04/19
  65. ---------------------------
  66. * Fixed memory leak in OS X module.
  67. Version 1.0.0 -- 2010/04/07
  68. ---------------------------
  69. * Initial Release