> I am new to python. Infact started yesterday and feeling out of place. > I need to write a program which would transfer files under one folder > structure (there are sub folders) to single folder. Can anyone give me > some idea like which library files or commands would be suitable for > this file transfer task. I am sure its matter of few commands. It > would be even more great if I could get some sample code with
The shutils.copytree() command[1] will do what you describe Depending on your source, and if you want to make the dest writeable (such as copying off a CD), you may also need to use os.walk() [2] combined with os.chmod(filepath, stat.S_IWRITE) [3] -tkc [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html#l2h-2297 [2] http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html#l2h-2707 [3] http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html#l2h-2677 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
