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Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program?

From ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program?
Date 2025-08-27 15:12 +0000
Organization Stefan Ram
Message-ID <copying-20250827160810@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
References <87a53kdfpx.fsf@somewhere.edu>

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Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote or quoted:
>Can you think of anything I'm missing?

  The correctness of a program as a solution to an assignment
  depends on the exact wording of the assignment, so it's a
  bit difficult to say without seeing it. 

>  """Copies text file named S to text file named D."""

  This is not entirely clear, since case is significant in Python
  ("S" is not the same as "s"), and it is ambiguous whether it refers
  to a file actually named "S" or to a file whose name is provided as
  a str object bound to the name "s" in the function's source code.

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can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> - 2025-08-27 11:03 -0300
  Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-08-27 15:12 +0000
    Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> - 2025-08-27 13:57 -0300
      Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-08-27 17:45 +0000
      Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2025-08-27 22:21 +0200
      Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> - 2025-08-28 21:05 +0100
        Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-28 22:17 +0000
  Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-08-27 21:09 +0000
    Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> - 2025-08-28 21:15 +0100
      Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-08-28 20:50 +0000
  Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program? (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-28 01:36 +0000

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