Bob Smith wrote: > Is shutil.copyfile(src,dst) the *most* portable way to copy files with > Python? I'm dealing with plain text files on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. > > Thanks!
Portable what? Way of copying?? Do you want your files transferred (a) so that they look like native text files on the destination system, or (b) so that they are exact byte-wise copies? A 5-second squint at the source (Lib/shutil.py) indicates that it provides, reliably and portably, option b: fsrc = open(src, 'rb') fdst = open(dst, 'wb') One way of doing option (a): you would need to be running Python on the destination system, open the src file with 'rU', open the dst file with 'w'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
