RE: Moving folders with content

Date	2012-09-16 08:02 +0000
From	<jyoung79@kc.rr.com>
Subject	RE: Moving folders with content
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.785.1347782537.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Thank you  "Nobody" and Hans!

> You may want to use the subprocess module to run 'ditto'.  If
> the destination folder does not exist, then ditto will copy MacOS
> specific aspects such as resource forks, ACLs and HFS meta-data.

This looks like a good direction to go.  Maybe something like:

>>> import os
>>> import subprocess
>>> 
>>> p1 = os.path.expanduser('~/Desktop/IN/Test/')
>>> p2 = os.path.expanduser('~/Desktop/OUT/Test/')
>>> 
>>> cmd = 'ditto -vV "' + p1 + '" "' + p2 + '"'
>>> 
>>> v = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
>>> Copying /Users/jay/Desktop/IN/Test/ 
copying file ./.DS_Store ... 
6148 bytes for ./.DS_Store
copying file ./dude.txt ... 
4 bytes for ./dude.txt
copying file ./new.png ... 
114469 bytes for ./new.png

Jay

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RE: Moving folders with content <jyoung79@kc.rr.com> - 2012-09-16 08:02 +0000
  Re: Moving folders with content Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-09-16 12:40 +0200
    Re: Moving folders with content Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-09-16 15:31 +0100
      Re: Moving folders with content Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-16 14:53 -0400
      Re: Moving folders with content Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-16 16:53 -0400

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