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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