Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-28 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: How can one copy files on the OS level? 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

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP bigboss1...@gmail.com escribió: On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch wrote: The function os.system ('copy file_name directory_name') turns out doesn't do anything except flashing a DOS command window for half a second. So my

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:36 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP bigboss1...@gmail.com escribió: On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch wrote: The function os.system ('copy file_name directory_name') turns out doesn't do anything

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:47 -0300, Steven D'Aprano ste...@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 bigboss1...@gmail.com escribió: On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Anthra Norell
Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Anthra Norell anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch wrote: snip No, I didn't. There's a number of modules I know by name only and shutils was one of them. A quick peek confirmed that it is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you very much for the

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread TerryP
On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch wrote: The function os.system ('copy file_name directory_name') turns out doesn't do anything except flashing a DOS command window for half a second. So my question is: How can one copy files on the OS level? Under a Windows system

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anthra Norell wrote: I have a Python program that needs to copy files around. I could read and write which would be inefficient and would time-stamp the copy. The module os has lots of operating system functions, but none that copies files I could make out reading the doc twice. The function

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Anthra Norell
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Anthra Norell wrote: I have a Python program that needs to copy files around. I could read and write which would be inefficient and would time-stamp the copy. The module os has lots of operating system functions, but none that copies files I could make out reading

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Anthra Norell anthra.nor...@bluewin.ch wrote: snip No, I didn't. There's a number of modules I know by name only and shutils was one of them. A quick peek confirmed that it is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you very much for the advice. Then Doug