On Jun 20, 5:30 pm, Ben Sizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to copy directories from one place to another, but it needs to
> overwrite individual files and directories rather than just exiting if
> a destination file already exists.
What version of Python do you have?
Nothing in the source would make it exit if a target file exists.
(Unless perhaps you have sym-links or the like.)
Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
copytree calls copy2 which calls copyfile
from shutil.py:
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
def _samefile(src, dst):
# Macintosh, Unix.
if hasattr(os.path,'samefile'):
try:
return os.path.samefile(src, dst)
except OSError:
return False
# All other platforms: check for same pathname.
return (os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(src)) ==
os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(dst)))
def copyfile(src, dst):
"""Copy data from src to dst"""
if _samefile(src, dst):
raise Error, "`%s` and `%s` are the same file" % (src, dst)
fsrc = None
fdst = None
try:
fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
fdst = open(dst, 'wb')
copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
finally:
if fdst:
fdst.close()
if fsrc:
fsrc.close()
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
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