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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 or can use pyobjc
with NSFileManager. 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

To install with pywin32 or pyobjc required specify the extra nativeLib:

python -m pip install -U send2trash[nativeLib]

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/

Dependencies of Send2Trash (2).
Dependency	Optional
pyobjc-framework-Cocoa	true
pywin32	true

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