Opinion on best practice...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-02-05, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/4/2013 11:14 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
>> I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform.  I use Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things.  Very simple copy files script.  Is this the best way to do it?
>>
>> import os
>>
>>      objdir = ("C:\\temp2")
>>      colDir = os.listdir(objdir)
>>      for f in colDir:
>>          activefile = os.path.join(objdir + "\\" + f)
>>          print ("Removing " + activefile + " from " + objdir)
>>          os.remove(activefile)
>>
>> In Powershell I would just do:
>>
>> $colDir = gci -path "c:\temp2"
>> ForEach($file in $colDir)
>
> Python comes with a shutil module with multiple copy functions.

Most of the time when I find myself using the shutil module, it means
the program should have been written in bash. :)

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