This example is the implementation of the copytree() function, described above, with the docstring omitted. It demonstrates many of the other functions provided by this module.
def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=0): names = os.listdir(src) os.mkdir(dst) for name in names: srcname = os.path.join(src, name) dstname = os.path.join(dst, name) try: if symlinks and os.path.islink(srcname): linkto = os.readlink(srcname) os.symlink(linkto, dstname) elif os.path.isdir(srcname): copytree(srcname, dstname) else: copy2(srcname, dstname) # XXX What about devices, sockets etc.? except (IOError, os.error), why: print "Can't copy %s to %s: %s" % (`srcname`, `dstname`, str(why))