joseph.h.garvin <[email protected]> added the comment:
Sorry I wasn't terribly clear explaining the problem with mkdtemp. Say you
create your temporary folder, /tmp/foo. Now you have a regular folder bar laid
out like so:
bar/
blarg1.ext
blarg2.ext
subdir/
blarg3.ext
blarg4.ext
I'd like this to be the result of copying:
/tmp
/foo
blarg1.ext
blarg2.ext
subdir/
blarg3.ext
blarg4.ext
Basically, I'd like to copy bar/ to /tmp/foo such that the paths of the files
relative to bar/ are the same as the paths of the copied files relative to
/tmp/foo. AFAICT there's no easy way to do this with copytree's current
behavior. Because tempfile.mkdtemp() creates /tmp/foo to start, you can't use
copytree to do this.
But now I realize copy tree wants to copy the source directory as a directory,
so you always get /tmp/foo/bar. What I wanted was copy(recursive_glob(src,
"*"), dst). That would give you the effect you normally get from a utility like
'cp'.
> It doesn't mean the semantics have to be exactly the same. Actually, many
> Python users are under Windows where semantics will be different.
I believe 'copy' has the same cp-like semantics I desire under Windows, but
it's been quite some time since I used it.
So, not a bug, but sticks out to me as missing. Might make sense someday to
have a keyword arg to copytree that would make it behave this way.
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