shutil.copytree without files

Question

I\'m trying use shutil.copytree:

shutil.copytree(SOURCE_DIR, TARGET_DIR, ignore=None)

This copy also files in folder. I need copy only folders

Answer 1

use distutils.dir_util.create_tree to just copy directory structure (not files)

note : the argument files is a list of filenames. if you want something that would work as shutils.copytree:

import os
import distutils.dir_util
def copy_tree(source, dest, **kwargs):
    filenames = [os.path.join(path, file_) for path, _, files in os.walk(source) for file_ in files]
    distutils.dir_util.create_tree(dest, filenames, **kwargs)