Jan 13, 2012 · In a nutshell, Python's shutil.move will raise an exception (but gnu-coreutils mv will not) when your destination is a directory and the directory already has a file with the same …

Oct 17, 2021 · You can try importing shutil and calling shutil.move(source,destination). The shutil module provides functions for moving files, as well as entire folders. Share

In Python you can use the move function in shutil library to achieve this. Let's say on Linux, you have a file in /home/user/Downloads folder named "test.txt" and you want to move it to …

There's also os.replace() function, see also Move file and overwrite existing in Python 3.6 on Windows - Stack Overflow – user202729 Commented Mar 30, 2023 at 0:40

Oct 9, 2010 · If not, you can simply use system tools like mv (*nix) , or move (windows). $ stat -c "%s" file 382849574 $ time python -c 'import shutil;shutil.move("file","/tmp")' real 0m29.698s …

Sep 23, 2008 · shutil has many methods you can use. One of which is: import shutil shutil.copyfile(src, dst) # 2nd option shutil.copy(src, dst) # dst can be a folder; use …

Jan 24, 2017 · This should do the trick. Also read the documentation of the shutil module to choose the function that fits your needs (shutil.copy(), shutil.copy2(), shutil.copyfile() or …

May 11, 2015 · And then you can move the file by adding it to the new bucket and after that, by deleting it from the source account fileToTransfer = source_client.get_object( Bucket="source …

Apr 8, 2014 · You can not move a file to another directory using rename, you can rename a file using move though. Move can replace an existing file (use /y), rename can't. You can both use …

If you're starting in Python, be aware that the join function was imported from the os.path module. So you could remove the line from os.path import join and then use os.path.join instead of join …