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Author gvanrossum
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Date 2000-10-30.18:43:45
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Copying files (and directories) properly is a very platform specific task -- there are lots of pitfalls that the copying code has to watch out for, e.g. copying files with "holes", properly copying all metadata, copying special files... I think that the os.rename() call is not the proper place to implement all this. But it's a useful feature nevertheless, and could perhaps be accommodated by a higher level function in the shutil module (which has the basic copying primitives).
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