[Tutor] File Copying on Win98

[Daniel Yoo]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Timothy M. Brauch wrote:

> Is there a way to copy a file from one place to another in Win 98 with
> Python 2.0.  The following does *not* work.
> 
> import os
> 
> contents_0=os.listdir('../CIM2kCD/')
> 
> try:
>     os.mkdir('C:/Program Files/CIM2k/')
> except: pass
> 
> for item in contents_0:
>    file=open('../CIM2kCD/'+item,'rb').read()
>    new=open('C:/Program Files/CIM2kCD/'+item,'w')
>    new.write('C:/Program Files/CIM2k/'+item)
> 
> This produces the following error:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last)
>   File "d:\cim2kcd\list.py", line 11, in ?
>     new=open('C:/Program Files/CIM2kCD/'+item,'w')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>   'C:/Program Files/CIM2kCD/CIM2k.htm'
> 
> I understand why it gives me that error, I am trying to open a file that
> doesn't exist.  But, how else can I copy a file.

The only thing I can think of that would cause this is that the directory
"C:/Program Files/CIM2kCD" doesn't exist.  Can you double check that this
is the case?