Chapter 17 - Python High Level File I/O Operations

 

Step 1

 

Open any text editor (gedit,pico,vi,nano) then enter the following python script and save the file with .py extension.

 

#!/usr/bin/python

#Author : Jijo K Jose

 

import shutil

 

print "\n------------------------------------\nChapter 17 - High level File I/O \n------------------------------------\n"

 

s = shutil

 

s.copy("data1","data5")

 

print "File data1 copied to data5 -shutil.copy() \n"

 

s.copy2("data1","data6")

 

print "File data1 copied to data6 without changing timestamp -shutil.copy1() \n"

 

s.move("data5","temp/data7")

 

print "File data5 moved to temp/data5 -shutil.move() \n" 

 

srcdir = "temp"

desdir = "temp2"

 

s.rmtree(desdir)

 

print "Remove the whole directory tree -shutil.rmtree() \n"

 

s.copytree(srcdir,desdir)

 

print "Copy the whole directory tree -shutil.copytree() \n"

 

print "\n----------------------------------------"

 

#END

 

Step 2

 

Change file permission to executable using chmod command.

 

Step 3

 

Execute the python file.

 

 

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