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Parseltongue
Parseltongue

Reputation: 11697

Python- Copy folders to another location without using disutils

I'm iterating through a directory that contains lots of folders. I want to copy each one of those folders from src to dest.

I have tried using shutil's copytree, but there is an issue involving overriding existing folders. I see that the solution is to use disutils, but I can't download disutils because my work computer prevents installation of new packages and pip install doesn't appear to be working from work, either.

Is there an alternate solution using default packages?

Here's the code so you can understand what I'm working with:

import os
from os.path import join 
import shutil


def main():

    directory = "Daily_Completed_Surveys"
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
       for i in dirs:
            if "POP" in i:
                src = os.path.join(root, i)
                dest = "C:\ALLPOP"
                shutil.copytree(src, dest)

The Daily_Completed_Surveys folder contains a structure like /[somedate]/POP[ComputerID][SomeDate]/[zipped files]

I want to get every folder labeled POP and copy them to the destination directory. (The folders themselves and the data, not just the zipped data) How do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 109

Answers (1)

jbat100
jbat100

Reputation: 16827

You could just check if the a directory in src exists in dest, and if it does, remove it from dest using shutil.rmtree(), then use shutil.copytree() to copy the directory and its content over.

Also, not being able to use pip somewhat sucks. If you have a proxy to the outside world you can go through that by using

pip install --proxy="user:password@server:port" packagename

Upvotes: 1

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