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

*bump* Windows 10!

With all your help and Virgil Dupras' send2trash:
I just cooked a vanilla Python version only using ctypes:

import os
import ctypes
from ctypes import wintypes


class _SHFILEOPSTRUCTW(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("hwnd", wintypes.HWND),
                ("wFunc", wintypes.UINT),
                ("pFrom", wintypes.LPCWSTR),
                ("pTo", wintypes.LPCWSTR),
                ("fFlags", ctypes.c_uint),
                ("fAnyOperationsAborted", wintypes.BOOL),
                ("hNameMappings", ctypes.c_uint),
                ("lpszProgressTitle", wintypes.LPCWSTR)]


def win_shell_copy(src, dst):
    """
    :param str src: Source path to copy from. Must exist!
    :param str dst: Destination path to copy to. Will be created on demand.
    :return: Success of the operation. False means is was aborted!
    :rtype: bool
    """
    if not os.path.exist(src):
        print('No such source "%s"' % src)
        return False

    src_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(src, len(src) + 2)
    dst_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(dst, len(dst) + 2)

    fileop = _SHFILEOPSTRUCTW()
    fileop.hwnd = 0
    fileop.wFunc = 2  # FO_COPY
    fileop.pFrom = wintypes.LPCWSTR(ctypes.addressof(src_buffer))
    fileop.pTo = wintypes.LPCWSTR(ctypes.addressof(dst_buffer))
    fileop.fFlags = 512  # FOF_NOCONFIRMMKDIR
    fileop.fAnyOperationsAborted = 0
    fileop.hNameMappings = 0
    fileop.lpszProgressTitle = None

    result = ctypes.windll.shell32.SHFileOperationW(ctypes.byref(fileop))
    return not result

✔ Tested on Python 3.7 and 2.7 also with long src and dst paths.