"oscartheduck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It wasn't, but after seeing your success I discovered what was wrong. >My destination directory didn't exist, and for some reason windows >wasn't automatically creating it to dump the files in.
Right. The "copy" command never creates directories. It will copy each individual file, in turn, to a file with whatever the last name in the list is. Not terribly useful, but it is a behavior inherited from DOS 1. On the other hand, the "xcopy" command will do it: xcopy /i C:\DIR1 C:\DIR2 That will create DIR2 if it does not already exist. >I could fix this with a nested if statement, but it "feels" like >windows should be creating this folder automatically if it doesn't >exist. What "feels" right is rarely a good reference for a command's behavior, especially on Windows. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
