Converting a Shell Script to run under Python

[Magnus L. Hetland]

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy at vex.net> writes:

> Magnus L. Hetland <mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > How strange... I can't seem to find any intelligent command for this.
> > Hm. You could of course read it all in and then write it out again, as
> > in
> 
> > open("file3","w").write(open("file1").read())
> 
> > though that is probably not a good idea. I guess I would rather do
> 
> Why don't you find this a good idea?

Because if there is a primitive (like the system command cp) for
copying, I guess it might be more effective than reading it all into
memory and then writing it to disk...

> It's pretty much a Python paradigm
> as far as I'm concerned.  I suppose a module with this in it would make
> it easier to read but I don't know that I care for the extra work and
> overhead.

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