How to know when a folder is copied in Cygwin using Sendkeys

[bkunjitam]

Using python (Python 2.5) I am invoking a cygwin session by the following code.

from win32com.client import *
 
a = Dispatch("Wscript.Shell")
 
a.Run("C:/cygwin/cygwin.bat");    
 

The cygwin window is prompted open. Now in the cygwin shell, i issue the following command using "SendKeys"

a.SendKeys ("cp -r src_path dest_path"+ "{Enter}")     #copy src_path to dest_path
 

Now i would like to prompt a dialog box "Copy Successful" once the entire folder is copied (using tkMessageBox).

How do i check that the entire folder is copied after issueing the command so that the dialog box is prompted?


Kindly help me in this regard.

[bartonc]

I believe that the glob module is what you are looking for, though I have not used it.

11.7 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion

The glob module finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell. No tilde expansion is done, but *, ?, and character ranges expressed with [] will be correctly matched. This is done by using the os.listdir() and fnmatch.fnmatch() functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell. (For tilde and shell variable expansion, use os.path.expanduser() and os.path.expandvars().)


glob( pathname)

Return a possibly-empty list of path names that match pathname, which must be a string containing a path specification. pathname can be either absolute (like /usr/src/Python-1.5/Makefile) or relative (like ../../Tools/*/*.gif), and can contain shell-style wildcards. Broken symlinks are included in the results (as in the shell).

iglob( pathname)

Return an iterator which yields the same values as glob() without actually storing them all simultaneously. New in version 2.5.