On Apr 12, 5:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 12, 4:09 pm, Paulo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
(snipped) > > > import subprocess > retcode = subprocess.call([ "/bin/cp", "-p", oldfile, newfile ]) > On my system, this preserves the access permissions and ownership. > > And if you modify the file after copying, you can alter > the access and modification times with posix.utime > to match that of the original. After poking around a bit I also discovered the shutil module. It looks like you can use shutil.copy2. More Pythonic, yes? -- Regards, Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
