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Jonnyboi
Jonnyboi

Reputation: 557

Python, Copy Subfolders with its Contents into newly created Parent folders

I have code with this logic: Make the directory from column "Folder_Name_to_create" if it exists. I am trying to add to this newly created directories a STATIC set of subfolders with its contents.

Getting subfolders to be copied to the newly created folder:

subfolders_to_create = []
for entry in pl_Template_Dir.glob('*'):
    if entry.is_dir():
        subfolders_to_create.append(entry.name)

Code that creates new directory if exists:

for folder in pl_dest['Folder_Name_to_create']:
    try:
        pathlib.Path(folder).mkdir()
    except FileExistsError:
        pass

What I am trying:

for sd in subfolders_to_create:
            (pl_dest / sd).mkdir()

error: AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'mkdir'

pl_dest dataframe:

```
     Folder_Name_to_create
0  O:\Stack\Over\Flow\2010 
1  O:\Stack\Over\Flow\2011 
```

Im having trouble putting this together. I want to create new directories if they exist and bring in the the Template Subfolders and contents to each newly created directory.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

jrudolf
jrudolf

Reputation: 56

You are calling mkdir on DataFrame, which has no such method. Although pl_dest / sd appends subdirectories to all parent folders in df, the call still returns a dataframe. You should make individual call on every element of the new df. It would look something like this:

for subfolder in subfolders_to_create:
    for folder_to_create in pl_dest['Folder_Name_to_create'] / subfolder:
        # exist_ok=True instead of try/catch
        folder_to_create.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)

Edit:

To copy subfolders with contents use shutils. In this example subfolders_to_create contains paths, not only relative names.

import shutils

for src_dir in subfolders_to_create:
    for dst_dir in pl_dest['Folder_Name_to_create']:
        shutils.copytree(src_dir, dst_dir)

Upvotes: 1

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