Copy files in cross-platform manner

[James J. Besemer]

You maybe want copyfile or copy or some such from shutil

Greg Fortune wrote:

> Is there any builtin python function that I've overlooked for copying
> files?  rename works great if you just need to move the file, but I
> actually need to make a copy.
>
> The most obvious way to me is
>
> in_file = open(src_file, 'r')
> inp = in_file.read()
> in_file.close()
>
> out = open(dst_file, 'w')
> out.write(inp)
> out.close()
>
> but I'd rather make a call to the os module and leave all the IO in C
> code...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
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