newbie: windows xp scripting

[Steve Holden]

oscartheduck wrote:
> I've been having trouble with the following style of script. It's
> simple stuff, I know, but it's stumping me:
> 
> import os
> 
> dirfrom = 'C:\\test'
> dirto = 'C:\\test1\\'
> 
> copy_command = 'copy "%s" "%s"' % (dirfrom, dirto)
> 
> if os.system(copy_command) == 0:
>     print "yay"
> else:
>     print "boo"
> 
> 
> What's going wrong is with the %s substitution part. I've tried more
> complex scipts and kept running against an error where my script just
> wouldn't work. So I stripped back and back and back to this point,
> where I'm just trying to run a simple copy command. But for some
> reason, it fails.
> 
> If I don't use the %s substitution but use the full pathnames
> explicitly in the copy command, it works fine. So that's where my issue
> seems to be. Help!
> 
Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc
  >>> import os
  >>> dirfrom = 'C:\\Steve\\t1'
  >>> dirto = 'C:\\Steve\\t2\\'
  >>> copy_command = 'copy "%s" "%s"' % (dirfrom, dirto)
  >>> if os.system(copy_command) == 0:
  ...   print 'yay!'
  ... else:
  ...   print 'boo!'
  ...
C:\Steve\t1\hello.txt
         1 file(s) copied.
yay!
  >>>

I don't suppose it's possible your from directory is empty?

regards
  Steve
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