shutil

Is there a way I can filter a directory by using the absolute path to it? shutil.copytree(directory, target_dir, ignore = shutil.ignore_patterns("/Full/Path/To/aDir/Common")) This doesn't seem to work when trying to filter the "Common" Directory located under " aDir ". If I do this: shutil.copytree(directory, target_dir, ignore = shutil.ignore_patterns("Common")) It works, but every directory called Common will be filtered in that "tree", which is not what I want. Any suggestions ? Thanks. phihag You can make your own ignore function: shutil.copytree('/Full/Path', 'target', ignore=lambda

I have a large directory with many subdirectories that I am trying to sort, I am trying to copy specific file types to a new folder, but I want to maintain the original subdirectories. def copyFile(src, dest): try: shutil.copy(src,dest) except shutil.Error as e: print('Error: %s' % e) except IOError as e: print('Error: %s' % s.strerror) for root, directories, files in os.walk(directory): for directoryname in directories: dirpath = os.path.join(root,directoryname) dir_paths.append(dirpath) dir_names.append(directoryname) if not os.listdir(dirpath): #Cheching if directory is empty print("Empty")

Very often in the Windows 7 console if I run a python program twice very quickly that does if os.path.isdir(d): shutil.rmtree(d) if not os.path.exists(d): os.mkdir(d) where d is the name of a directory with many files, I get a "Permission denied" for the mkdir command. But if I run once, then wait some seconds, then run again I do not get such error. What is the problem here? There are three things that come to mind: Windows itself delays some file operations in order to preserve metadata. If you for example rename a file and create another one in its location, Windows has a time-window where

I've been trying to use the zipfile and shutil.make_archive modules to recursively create a zip file of a directory. Both modules work great--except empty directories do not get added to the archive. Empty directories containing other empty directories are also silently skipped. I can use 7Zip to create an archive of the same path and empty directories are preserved. Therefore I know this is possible within the file format itself. I just don't know how to do it within Python. Any ideas? Thanks! There is a example using zipfile: import os, zipfile from os.path import join def zipfolder

This question already has an answer here: How do I copy an entire directory of files into an existing directory using Python? 13 answers I have a directory /a/b/c that has files and subdirectories. I need to copy the /a/b/c/* in the /x/y/z directory. What python methods can I use? I tried shutil.copytree("a/b/c", "/x/y/z") , but python tries to create /x/y/z and raises an error "Directory exists" . prosseek I found this code working. from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree # copy subdirectory example fromDirectory = "/a/b/c" toDirectory = "/x/y/z" copy_tree(fromDirectory, toDirectory)