On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this modification to copyFile do the job of moving the file? I haven't
> written a test yet.
>
> Thanks for catching the indentation for the helper functions.
>
> def copyFile(src, dest):
>> > try:
>> > shutil.rename(src, dest)
>> > # eg. src and dest are the same file
>> > except shutil.Error as e:
>> > print('Error: %s' % e)
>> > # eg. source or destination doesn't exist
>> > except IOError as e:
>> > print('Error: %s' % e.strerror)
You shouldn't need shutil here; just os.rename(src, dest) should do
the trick. But be careful! Now you have a function which moves a file,
and it's called "copyFile". If its purpose changes, so should its
name.
Have fun!
ChrisA
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