Tkinter polling example: file copy with progress bar

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:35:45 -0800 (PST)
baloan <baloand at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately you use command('cp...') to copy the file instead of
> Pythons portable library methods. This choice
> effectively makes your program work on Unix only (not Windows).
> 
> See http://modcopy.sourceforge.net for a more portable version.

I guess I missed the beginning of this thread but can someone tell me
why one needs to download a whole other program in order to do this?

  open(out_fn, 'w').write(open(in_fn).read())

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