Recycle Bin and Python

[Michael Foord]

How do I move files into the windoze recycle bin from python ?

Regards,

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html

 

[Peter Maas]

How do I move files into the windoze recycle bin from python ?

By moving them into the recycle directory?

 

[Dave Brueck]

How do I move files into the windoze recycle bin from python ?

This is really a Windows API question first, and a Python question second.

1) Find out the "official" way to do this in Windows

I googled for "msdn move file recycle bin" and the first link that came back was
a page on MSDN for SHFileOperation. In typical Windows fashion, it involves
populating some structure and passing it to the function, but it does appear to
do the trick.

2) Figure out how to do this in Python.

You can create such a structure in ctypes, after which you can make the actual
call like this:

i = windll.shell32.SHFileOperationA(byref(yourStruct))

HTH,
Dave

 

[Michael Foord]

This is really a Windows API question first, and a Python question second.

1) Find out the "official" way to do this in Windows

I googled for "msdn move file recycle bin" and the first link that came back was
a page on MSDN for SHFileOperation. In typical Windows fashion, it involves
populating some structure and passing it to the function, but it does appear to
do the trick.

2) Figure out how to do this in Python.

You can create such a structure in ctypes, after which you can make the actual
call like this:

i = windll.shell32.SHFileOperationA(byref(yourStruct))

HTH,
Dave

It does help.. yeeurgh....

But thanks.

Fuzzy

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html