Tim Roberts wrote: > "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've done a v. simple comparison of a few techniques for copying things on Win32. Might be of some use: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/copy-a-file.html TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
