John Salerno wrote:
On Jun 17, 2:23 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
If you follow the second part of Greg's suggestion 'or one of the other
related function in the shutil module', you will find copytree()
"Recursively copy an entire directory tree rooted at src. "
Yeah, but shutil.copytree says:
"The destination directory, named by dst, must not already exist"
which again brings me back to the original problem. All I'm looking
for is a simple way to copy files from one location to another,
overwriting as necessary, but there doesn't seem to be a single
function that does just that.
If you don't mind deleting what's already there:
shutil.rmtree(...)
shutil.copytree(...)
If you do mind, roll your own (or borrow ;):
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#stripped down and modified version from 2.7 shutil (not tested)
def copytree(src, dst):
names = os.listdir(src)
if not os.path.exists(dst): # no error if already exists
os.makedirs(dst)
errors = []
for name in names:
srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
try:
if os.path.isdir(srcname):
copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
else:
copy2(srcname, dstname)
except (IOError, os.error), why:
errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why)))
# catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can
# continue with other files
except Error, err:
errors.extend(err.args[0])
if errors:
raise Error(errors)
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~Ethan~
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