How do I copy a file in Python?

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How do I copy a file in
Python?

I couldn't find anything under href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html"
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Answer

href="http://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html"
rel="noreferrer">shutil has many methods you can
use. One of which
is:

from shutil import
            copyfile
copyfile(src,
            dst)

Copy the contents
of the file named src to a file named
dst. The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an
IOError exception will be raised. If
dst already exists, it will be replaced. Special files such as
character or block devices and pipes cannot be copied with this function.

With copy,
src and dst are path names given as
strings.

If you use
os.path operations, use copy rather
than copyfile. copyfile
will only accept strings.