Is there a portable way to copy files in Python?

[Michael Hudson]

Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> writes:

> Pierre Rouleau <prouleau at impathnetworks.com> wrote in 
> news:3D80A78B.5030206 at impathnetworks.com:
> 
> > I could write code that identifies the operating system (the os.path 
> > way) and use os.system("cp " + source_filename + " " + destination) for 
> > Unix-type and os.system("copy " + source_filename + " " + destination) 
> > but i would prefer to use a simple call.
> > 
> > Is this available in the Python library?  If not, why is it not part of 
> > the library?
> 
> Try the shutil module.

Or distutils.file_copy.  I don't like shutil much; somewhere on my
todo list is doing something about that...

Cheers,
M.

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