Hi Gitte, unfortunately this is as wrong as it can be ;) Hint: you can get a bit familar with python, if you just run the interpreter binary and type some code interactively. "import copy" puts the _module_ named "copy" in the namespace. This module happens to define a function called copy. So if you want to use that function, you have either type copy.copy() or use another flavour of the import statement: from copy import copy While this would solve your first error, you will probably get a new then, since this copy function is not for copying files in the filesystem. Its for copying python objects. (So you can copy the fileobject (but this is only a handle to the file on disk)) I'm afraid there is no copy for the filesystem. You can do it by opening one file for reading and another for writing. While its ok for small files to read all into memory, this can make problems, if the files are very large. So you might copy in smaller chunks: source=open(sourcefile) # if you are on windows and want to copy binary # files, you must use open(sourcefile,'rb') dest=open(destfile,'w') # or 'wb' for binary chunk=1 # dummy value for while while chunk: chunk=source.read(65536) # 64 KB in one chunk, you can tune this value dest.write(chunk) dest.close() source.close() HTH Tino Wildenhain while chunk --On Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2001 16:22 +0200 Gitte Wange <gitte@mmmanager.org> wrote:

Hello out there ..

I know this is a python question (please forgive me) but I couldn't find an answer in the python docs.

The problem is very simple - I need to make a copy of a file in the filesystem in a pythhon module.

I have tried with this: import copy

<a lot of code> copy(file_reposit, new_fnreposit) </a lot of code>

I get this error:

Zope Error

Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

Error Type: TypeError Error Value: call of non-function (type module)

If I don't use the import copy Zope just returns an error saying that copy isn't defined.

How do I then make a copy of a file ???

Regards,

-- Gitte Wange Jensen

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