The shutil module
This utility module contains some functions for copying files and directories. The copy function copies a file in pretty much the same way as the Unix cp command.
Example: Using the shutil module to copy files
# File: shutil-example-1.py import shutil import os for file in os.listdir("."): if os.path.splitext(file)[1] == ".py": print file shutil.copy(file, os.path.join("backup", file))
aifc-example-1.py anydbm-example-1.py array-example-1.py ...
The copytree function copies an entire directory tree (same as cp -r), and rmtree removes an entire tree (same as rm -r).
Example: Using the shutil module to copy and remove directory trees
# File: shutil-example-2.py import shutil import os SOURCE = "samples" BACKUP = "samples-bak" # create a backup directory shutil.copytree(SOURCE, BACKUP) print os.listdir(BACKUP) # remove it shutil.rmtree(BACKUP) print os.listdir(BACKUP)
['sample.wav', 'sample.jpg', 'sample.au', 'sample.msg', 'sample.tgz', ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "shutil-example-2.py", line 17, in ? print os.listdir(BACKUP) os.error: No such file or directory
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