Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-28 Thread David Robinow
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > How can one copy files on the OS level? > The idea was just to show how to call CopyFile using ctypes, not implying > that it's the only way to do that. Everyone knows that the One and True Way > of copying files is using PIP. Yuk!

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:04:47 -0300, Steven D'Aprano escribió: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:36 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP escribió: On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell wrote: How can one copy files on the OS level? from ctypes import windll Cop

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:48:36 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP > escribió: > >> On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell wrote: >>> The function "os.system >>> ('copy file_name directory_name')" turns out doesn't do anything >>> except flashing a DOS command

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:09 -0300, TerryP escribió: On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell wrote: The function "os.system ('copy file_name directory_name')" turns out doesn't do anything except flashing a DOS command window for half a second. So my question is: How can one copy files on the OS l

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread TerryP
On Oct 26, 10:00 am, Anthra Norell wrote: > The function "os.system > ('copy file_name directory_name')" turns out doesn't do anything except > flashing a DOS command window for half a second. So my question is: How > can one copy files on the OS level? Under a Windows system the built in command

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-27 Thread Anthra Norell
Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: No, I didn't. There's a number of modules I know by name only and shutils was one of them. A quick peek confirmed that it is exactly what I am looking for. Thank you very much for the advice. Then Doug Hell

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Anthra Norell wrote: > > > No, I didn't. There's a number of modules I know by name only and shutils > was one of them. A quick peek confirmed that it is exactly what I am looking > for. Thank you very much for the advice. > Then Doug Hellmann's PyMOTW is for you

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Anthra Norell
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Anthra Norell wrote: I have a Python program that needs to copy files around. I could read and write which would be inefficient and would time-stamp the copy. The module "os" has lots of operating system functions, but none that copies files I could make out reading t

Re: how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Anthra Norell wrote: > I have a Python program that needs to copy files around. I could read > and write which would be inefficient and would time-stamp the copy. The > module "os" has lots of operating system functions, but none that copies > files I could make out reading the doc twice. The func

how to get os.system () call to cooperate on Windows

2009-10-26 Thread Anthra Norell
I have a Python program that needs to copy files around. I could read and write which would be inefficient and would time-stamp the copy. The module "os" has lots of operating system functions, but none that copies files I could make out reading the doc twice. The function "os.system ('copy fil