Re: [pygame] File Copying

[John Popplewell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:45:30PM +0100, Rolando Pereira wrote:
> Ian Mallett escreveu:
> >Hi,
> >Suppose you have an image file.  Call it "blah.png".  If I want to copy it
> >to another directory and rename it "Ogg.png", how would I do that with
> >python code?
> >
> 
> Well, this is more of a [Tutor]'s question than a Pygame's question, but 
> at least this one I can anwser.
> 
> (This was done in 5 minutes or so, so it might have a but or something :D )
> 
> f = file("full_path_to_blah.png")
> n = file("full_path_to_Ogg.png", "w") # We add "w", so that if 
> the file 						so that if the file 
> doesn't 							exist, it 
> will be created
> 
> n.write(f.read())
> n.close()
> 
> Presto, there should be now two similar images :D

Hi,

I tend to use the shutil module for this kind of work. See shutil.copy() and
shutil.copy2().

To manipulate file path/names I tend to use the os.path functions. See
os.path.join(), os.path.split(), os.path.splitext().

cheers,
John.