The answer to this question probably involves pywin32 or a similar library.
I would like to copy a file from one place to another on a Windows machine while preserving as much of the file permissions as it is possible to preserve with whatever my program's privileges happen to be. If the file is a directory (i.e. folder), this might require temporarily granting myself write permission for the directory so I can (recursively) create files in it--again, assuming that it is possible to do so. Obviously it would be necessary to determine whether my program's privileges are sufficient to solve this problem for the particular files in question. Can someone who is more familiar than I with the vagaries of Windows file protection and the Python interfaces available to it point me in a useful direction? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
