Timeline for How do I copy a file?
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| Mar 11, 2025 at 23:27 | comment | added | MikeKulls | @YaroslavNikitenko that's why he gave multiple options. If he gave that as a single option then your reply would be valid. | |
| Jun 5, 2024 at 13:11 | comment | added | Narges Ghanbari | what is different between using shutil and os modules ? do they work in the same way? | |
| Apr 25, 2024 at 7:51 | comment | added | SomethingSomething |
You technically can copy using a shell command, but why? Is there any case where shutil's provided API is not safer, more robust and covering all the edge cases in a single API, apart from being cross-platform? I'd at least mention near those examples a comment about them not being recommended.
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| Nov 17, 2022 at 16:50 | comment | added | Shriraj Hegde | Only the first example answers the question. Running shell commands isn't portable and also isn't really performing actions. | |
| Sep 10, 2022 at 15:28 | comment | added | Yaroslav Nikitenko | Thanks for many options you listed. IMHO, "os.popen('cp source.txt destination.txt') " (with its likes) is bad design. Python is a platform-independent language, and with code like this you destroy this great feature. | |
| Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12 | history | edited | Community Bot |
Commonmark migration
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 18:11 | history | undeleted | Jean-François Fabre ♦ | ||
| Apr 29, 2019 at 17:23 | history | deleted | Jean-François Fabre ♦ | via Vote | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 3:05 | history | answered | kmario23 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |