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 >>> except flashing a DOS command window for half a second. So my question >>> is: How can one copy files on the OS level?
[...] > It's as simple as this: > > from ctypes import windll > CopyFile = windll.kernel32.CopyFileA > CopyFile("d:\\temp\\old.txt", "d:\\temp\\new.txt", True) Have I missed something? What's wrong with shutil? shutil.copyfile(source, destination) seems to work for me, even on Windows. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list