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 name as the source (again for more info see the link provided in the previous sentence). –

You should have the wanted directory to save the file in, and the new file name. You can do this for every file you run across in your loop. For example: # In Windows dest_dir = "tmp\\2" new_name = "bar.txt" current_file_name = "tmp\\1\\foo.txt" os.rename(current_file_name, os.path.join(dest_dir, new_name))

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 shutil.move()).

What I want to do is move the contents of 'src Directory' to 'Dst Directory' and overwrite any files that exist with the same name. So for example 'Src Directory\file.txt' needs to be moved to 'Dst Directory\' and overwrite the existing file.txt.

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

Dec 18, 2014 · I would like to move in python files and directories in one directory to another directory with overwrite ability. I started with the following code: #moving files from progs path = tempfolder + 'progs/' for dirs,files in os.listdir(path): for f in files: shutil.move(os.path.join(path, f) , os.path.join(compteurfolder, f))

Dec 12, 2022 · use shutil.move method to move a file shutil.move(src, dst, copy_function=copy2) Recursively move a file or directory (src) to another location (dst) and return the destination. refer. source = 'path/to/file' destination = 'path/to/file' dest = shutil.move(source, destination, copy_function = shutil.copytree)

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 shutil.copy2() to preserve timestamp

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 slash or backslash, backslash needs to be escaped by using 2 backslashes where you need 1 and 4 backslashes where you need 2. Your function move needs a return.

May 9, 2014 · Another option is using glob module, which let's you specify file mask and retrieve list of desired files. It should be as simple as