Re: can you improve this text-only beginner copy program?

[email protected] (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.general
Organization Stefan Ram
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ethan Carter <[email protected]> wrote or quoted:
>You're right.  There's no written statement.  The exercise was suggested
>by the teacher while in class.  It was something like ``write a program
>that copies text files by getting source and destination via the
>command-line.''

  Well then, I'd think about using "shutil", e.g., "shutil.copy".
  Check it out in "The Python Library Reference"; it's 11.10.1 in
  release 3.13.0a0. 

>But, yeah, if the Python community doesn't do that, it's all what you
>say.

  Community or no community, in Python, you can have:

def f( s, S ):
    return 2*s+S

  . Should the docs then say, "returns 2*S+S"?

>PS.  Is it just me or there's just us in this used-to-be-very-active
>group?  Thanks for being my teacher here.  Have a good day!

  Thanks, you too!

  On one hand, many people seem to prefer websites for discussions
  nowadays. On the other hand, if I had not responded, probably
  someone else would have.
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