Re: Re: No os.copy()? Why not?

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On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Note, though, that this reads the whole file into memory. As many
> others have said, shutil is the most idiomatic option.

* most idiomatic
* clearest in terms of showing intent
* potentially fastest
* hardest to screw up (unlike concatenating file names into a
   'system' call)
* has at least a snowball's chance of persisting metadata associated
   with the file (even if shutil doesn't now, it could theoretically
   change)
* portable

There's basically nothing NOT to like about shutil, and at least one 
significant problems with all the other suggestions.

Evan

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  Re: No os.copy()? Why not? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 21:50 -0700
    Re: No os.copy()? Why not? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-03-30 02:25 -0700
  Re: No os.copy()? Why not? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-04-02 14:48 -0600
  Re: No os.copy()?  Why not? HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> - 2012-04-02 21:11 +0000
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      Re: No os.copy()? Why not? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 10:29 -0600
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  Re: No os.copy()?  Why not? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-04-03 15:10 -0500
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