Use Windows `IFileOperation` to implement copying/moving/deleting in pathlib
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
The Windows-only IFileOperation API allows us to copy, move and delete files and directories using the same code as explorer.exe. We could use this to provide pathlib.Path.copy(), move() and _delete() - it should be much faster, and in the case of _delete() it would work around #84324
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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Research direction
Start with the linked Windows IFileOperation API and the existing pathlib.Path copy, move, and _delete entry points. Determine how the Windows-only implementation should expose these operations and verify that copying, moving, and deleting files and directories use the API while addressing the deletion problem described in #84324.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100