> Can someone who is more familiar than I with the vagaries of Windows file
> protection and the Python interfaces available to it point me in a useful
> direction?
To copy a file along with its attributes, try SHFileOperation.
Alternatively, if you have backup privileges, open the file for bac
The answer to this question probably involves pywin32 or a similar library.
I would like to copy a file from one place to another on a Windows machine
while preserving as much of the file permissions as it is possible to
preserve with whatever my program's privileges happen to be. If the file i
