On Jan 12, 11:31 am, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy +complangpyt...@jeremysanders.net> wrote: > Zabin wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers....i had a look around and found the site: > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/prodd... > us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true > > > > > to disable the prompt- i needed to include /y as below: > > os.system ('xcopy /s %s %s /y ' % (dirExe, dirname_new)) > > > and just wondering- whats the drawback of using os.system() command > > - It won't work across different platforms (unix, mac, windows) > - Spaces or special characters in the filename will mess up the command line > and can lead to huge security flaws in your program. > - It's inefficient as you have to start a new program to do the work (slow > on windows) > - Error handling from the xcopy process will not be easy > > -- > Jeremy Sandershttp://www.jeremysanders.net/
wow- thanks heaps! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
