Copying Huge Files ? (Newbie!)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Matthias> But while reading the manual I cannot find something like
    Matthias> os.copyfile or os.movefile.

    Matthias> Are there some functions except open/read/write that can do
    Matthias> the copy for me ???

Matthias,

You'll have to open the input and output file, then read and write chunks
yourself, for example (untested!):

    def copy(fromfile, tofile, chunksize=8192):
	f = open(fromfile, "rb")
	t = open(tofile, "wb")
	data = f.read(chunksize)
	while data:
	    t.write(data)
	    data = f.read(chunksize)
	f.close()
	t.close()

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