how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows
Gabriel Genellina
gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Oct 28 00:43:21 EDT 2009
En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:47 -0300, Steven D'Aprano
<steven at remove.this.cybersource.com.au> escribió:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:36 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP <bigboss1964 at gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>>> On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell <anthra.nor... at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>>> How can one copy files on the OS level?
>> from ctypes import windll
>> CopyFile = windll.kernel32.CopyFileA
>> CopyFile("d:\\temp\\old.txt", "d:\\temp\\new.txt", True)
>
> Have I missed something? What's wrong with shutil?
There's nothing wrong with shutil, but CopyFile and friends have some
additional features (correct handling of alternate data streams, progress
callback, reduced disk fragmentation...) that some people may be
interested in.
The idea was just to show how to call CopyFile using ctypes, not implying
that it's the only way to do that. Everyone knows that the One and True
Way of copying files is using PIP.
--
Gabriel Genellina
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