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pythonshutil
chowpay
chowpay

Reputation: 1687

Moving files after processing

Hi Trying to move logs that are finished being processed but I think I'm using shutil wrong.

import shutil

path = '/logs/'
finDir = '/complete/'

# parse loop
def getUniquePath(path):
    for filename in os.listdir(path):
       if..processing log 
       shutil.move(filename, finDir) #moves completed files

I keep getting errors that file does not exist.

So I added a print statement after the loop and it correctly prints out the filename and the destination so I'm thinking that I am just using shutil.move incorrectly.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1551

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 368944

You need to combine path with filename unless you are in the /logs/ directory.

Otherwise, file searching is done in the current directory; which cause file not found, or wrong file manipulation (if there was the file with the same name in the current directory)

Using os.path.join:

import os
import shutil

path = '/logs/'
finDir = '/complete/'

# parse loop
def getUniquePath(path):
    for filename in os.listdir(path):
       ..
       shutil.move(os.path.join(path, filename), finDir)
       #           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Upvotes: 1

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