A slightly better implementation python copytree that copies recursively source contents to a destination.
- Destination path is created automatically if it does not exists
- Possible to specify force flag to overwrite destination contents
- Possible to specify which files to copy and not to copy to destination
The function takes six arguments. Positional arguments - src and dest -are mandatory. Third positional argument ignore takes a function which takes list of items to ignore by using ignore_patterns function. The same ignore also accepts list of items to copy by using
include_patterns function. Specify true to copy symlinks. If force is set to true, destination contents will be overwritten.
ignore_patterns() example
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copy_tree(src, dest, ignore=ignore_patterns('*.pyc', '*.class'), force=False)
include_patterns() example
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copy_tree(src, dest, ignore=include_patterns('*.py', '*.sh'), symlink=True, force=True)
The function is unit tested (not fully covered) and ran through pylint.