Copy using the Windows copy dialog

Question

I\'m currently using shutil.copy2() to copy a large number of image files and folders (anywhere between 0.5 and 5 gigs). Shutil works fine, but it\'s

Answer 1

Update: See

• https://github.com/tjguk/winshell/
• https://github.com/frmdstryr/pywinutils

Would be nice to have it wrapped in a library... With the help of the answers above, I was able to get it working on windows 7 as follows.

import pythoncom
from win32com.shell import shell,shellcon

def win_copy_files(src_files,dst_folder):           
        # @see IFileOperation
        pfo = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(shell.CLSID_FileOperation,None,pythoncom.CLSCTX_ALL,shell.IID_IFileOperation)

        # Respond with Yes to All for any dialog
        # @see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775799(v=vs.85).aspx
        pfo.SetOperationFlags(shellcon.FOF_NOCONFIRMATION)

        # Set the destionation folder
        dst = shell.SHCreateItemFromParsingName(dst_folder,None,shell.IID_IShellItem)

        for f in src_files:
                src = shell.SHCreateItemFromParsingName(f,None,shell.IID_IShellItem)
                pfo.CopyItem(src,dst) # Schedule an operation to be performed


        # @see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775780(v=vs.85).aspx
        success = pfo.PerformOperations()

        # @see sdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775769(v=vs.85).aspx
        aborted = pfo.GetAnyOperationsAborted()
        return success and not aborted


files_to_copy = [r'C:\Users\jrm\Documents\test1.txt',r'C:\Users\jrm\Documents\test2.txt']
dest_folder = r'C:\Users\jrm\Documents\dst'
win_copy_files(files_to_copy,dest_folder)

The references here were also very helpful: http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/html/com/win32com/HTML/QuickStartClientCom.html