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cardiokhan
cardiokhan

Reputation: 29

Attempting to move Files but unable to move Folders via Python

I am trying to move files and folders from directory to another. I am currently facing two issues.

  1. It only seems to move files but not any folders.
  2. It only picks up the uppercase or lowercase.

Do you know what might be missing to do this. I could add an or statement statement with startswith but would like to see if there is a better way to do this. 

import os
from os import path
import shutil

src = "C:/Users/test/documents/"
dst = "C:/Users/test/Documents/test"

files = [i for i in os.listdir(src) if i.startswith("C") and \
         path.isfile(path.join(src, i))]
for f in files:
    shutil.move(path.join(src, f), dst)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 100

Answers (1)

mind-protector
mind-protector

Reputation: 248

This will go through the source directory, create any directories that do not yet exist in the destination directory, and move the files from the source to the destination directory:

(As I understand it, this is what you want)

import os
import shutil

src = "C:/Users/test/documents/"
dst = "C:/Users/test/documents/test"

for src_dir, dirs, files in os.walk(src):
    dst_dir = src_dir.replace(src, dst, 1)
    if not os.path.exists(dst_dir):
        os.makedirs(dst_dir)
    for file_ in files:
        src_file = os.path.join(src_dir, file_)
        dst_file = os.path.join(dst_dir, file_)
        if os.path.exists(dst_file):
            os.remove(dst_file)
        shutil.move(src_file, dst_dir)

Upvotes: 1

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