Hi Fred, welcome to the list
> I would like to provide the script the path and filename of a file. OK, Look at sys.argv for command line argument passing Look at raw_input() for interactive prompting > Then the script would create a series of required directories > then copy the contents of the provided folder into the destination > location + series of required directories Look at the os module for lots of stuff around handling files. In particular look at the os.path module and the shutil module. > It doesn't seem to terribly difficult, and I think i could get this > same functionality done in something other than python, but I would > love to try and start off with something like this. It's a perfectly valid starting point. Have a go, and ask here if/when you hit problems. You might find the "Using the OS" topic in my tutorial useful as a starter. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
