On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
Note, though, that this reads the whole file into memory. As many
others have said, shutil is the most idiomatic option.
* most idiomatic
* clearest in terms of showing intent
* potentially fastest
* hardest to screw up (unlike concatenating file names into a
'system' call)
* has at least a snowball's chance of persisting metadata associated
with the file (even if shutil doesn't now, it could theoretically
change)
* portable
There's basically nothing NOT to like about shutil, and at least one
significant problems with all the other suggestions.
Evan
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