Zabin wrote: > Thanks for the pointers....i had a look around and found the site: > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en- 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 Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
