Opinion on best practice...
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Feb 5 02:56:39 EST 2013
On 2/4/2013 11:14 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
> I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I use Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things. Very simple copy files script. Is this the best way to do it?
>
> import os
>
> objdir = ("C:\\temp2")
> colDir = os.listdir(objdir)
> for f in colDir:
> activefile = os.path.join(objdir + "\\" + f)
> print ("Removing " + activefile + " from " + objdir)
> os.remove(activefile)
>
> In Powershell I would just do:
>
> $colDir = gci -path "c:\temp2"
> ForEach($file in $colDir)
Python comes with a shutil module with multiple copy functions.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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