Python Question

drj000 · 01-25-2005, 11:00 PM

I just started learning Python, so my question may be fairly obvious, but I haven't been able to find an answer.
I was writing a plugin for madman in Python, but for it to work, I need to be able to move a file across filesystems. os.rename doesn't work across filesytsems (in Linux, at least). Is there another way to do it, aside from creating a new file, copying the contents from the original file to the new one, and then deleting the old file? If I have to do that, I will. It just seems there should be a simpler way.

Hko · 01-26-2005, 06:22 AM

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Is there another way to do it, aside from creating a new file, copying the contents from the original file to the new one, and then deleting the old file? If I have to do that, I will. It just seems there should be a simpler way.

Most likely there's no other way from within python.
You could run the "mv" program from your python script. This will do a rename if source and destination are on the same filesystem, if not it will revert to copy/delete automatically.

drj000 · 01-26-2005, 09:26 AM

Oh never mind. I just figured it out. shutil.move() does it. Thanks anyway.

Hko · 01-26-2005, 11:36 AM

I learned something about python as well here...