"Russell Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just did a comparison of the copying speed of shutil.copy against the >speed of a direct windows copy using os.system. I copied a file that >was 1083 KB. > >I'm very interested to see that the shutil.copy copyfileobj >implementation of hacking through the file and writing a new one is >significantly faster... any clue as to why this is? I figure I'm >missing something here. > >Does os.system launch a cmd shell every time?
Yes. That's in the documentation. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
