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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:48:38 -0600
Subject: Re: No os.copy()? Why not?
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, John Ladasky
<john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> 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. =A0I haven't found anything in the documentation.
> I am also looking through the Python source code in os.py and its
> child, posixfile.py.
>
> Any help? =A0Thanks.

The os module wraps system calls, not shell commands.  You want the
shutil module, not the os module.