Copy a file in python

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 4 Dec 2002 00:46:29 -0800
anandpillai6 at yahoo.com (Anand) wrote:
> What is the function to copy a file in python?

If I were to be verbose, I would probably do the following

originalFile = open(originalPath,'r')
targetFile = open(targetPath,'w')
targetFile.write(originalfile.read())

But to be honest, I would rather write this as

open(targetPath,'w').write(open(originalPath,'r').read())

Note: For huge files, there are other ways that are better. 

HTH
/Mikael

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