<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> one thing I just noticed is that when I run the script I get a new symbolic link created in my current dir TEST_HOME------>lib --Brian
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian McCann Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 2:40 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: copying files Hi, with the code below I set a variable TEST_HOME to a path and the variable m to a path in my current dir. I have a symbolic link setting m---->lib when I run the script I get no errors and the lib dir with its 20 files does not get copied to /v01/test_home any help would be greatly appreciated --Brian #!/usr/bin/python import string import os import sys import errno import shutil import tarfile TEST_HOME = "/v01/test_home" m = "./lib" os.system("cp -r m TEST_HOME")
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