shutil rant

[Aahz]

In article <3ce4eebb.26302437 at News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
Gerson Kurz <moc.q-dnan-p at p-nand-q.com> wrote:
>
>Now I know about general unix superiority and all that, but ... do I
>really have to resort to "import win32api" in order to make an exact
>file copy on windows? 

Well, yes.  The problem is that win32all is not part of the core Python
distribution, so none of the core library features can rely on it.  :-(
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