How to copy a file without using shutil.copy

Question

My teacher gave us a task: I gotta create 2 folders: folder1 folder2 And i gotta add a text file to folder1 then append asmthg on it (iknow i use f = open("//Folder1//text.txt", mode = a, encoding = "UTF-8) then f.append("Hello World!") and then i gotta copy the text file in folder1 to folder2 as text.txt(Copy) without using shutil.copyfile

So can anyone help about it?

Answer 1

If you have a .txt file you can always read it this way:

with open("file.txt", 'r') as file:
    content = file.read()

and write to a file this way:

with open("otherfile.txt", 'w') as otherfile:
    otherfile.write(content)

So this is the easier way to duplicate a file, since open with option 'w' (write mode) will automatically create the file if it doesn't exist.

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In your case, since you have paths like r'\\Folder1\\text.txt' you just have to replace "file.txt" with your path, this way:

with open("\\Folder1\\text.txt", 'r') as file:
    ...
with open("\\Folder2\\text.txt", 'w') as newfile:
    ...