No os.copy()? Why not?

[D'Arcy Cain]

On 03/28/12 16:12, John Ladasky wrote:
> I'm looking for a Python (2.7) equivalent to the Unix "cp" command.
> Since the equivalents of "rm" and "mkdir" are in the os module, I
> figured I look there.  I haven't found anything in the documentation.
> I am also looking through the Python source code in os.py and its
> child, posixfile.py.

cp is not a system command, it's a shell command.  Why not just use the
incredibly simple and portable

   >>>open("outfile", "w").write(open("infile").read())

put it into a method if you find that too much to type:

def cp(infile, outfile):
   open(outfile, "w").write(open(infile).read())

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