I am using os.walk to identify paths in a generic source directory (SRC) that contain any strings in my_list: And let’s say that print(source_path) gives the following: My goal is to shutil.move my source_path’s, but since, for example, moving /User/dir_1/bird_files/ and then trying to move /User/…
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Is there any method to compress ZIP files in python?
I have tried creating zip using zipfile and shutil. But, there was not visible file size compression in both the methods. zipfile shutil Is there any way to ensure file compression as well? Thanks. Answer You did zipfile.ZipFile docs state The compresslevel parameter controls the compression level to use when…
display progress bar in console while copying files. using tqdm in python
I have a python script that read from source folder and copy existing files into the specified destination using shutil package. I want to show a progress bar while copying these files so i tried to import tqdm package, but when i try to run the program it crash and display the below error: for obj in iterabl…
Using random and shutil to move files in loop in python
I have a small problem. I am trying to move 20×500 images in 20 predefined folders. I can make this work with just 500 random images and I have identified the problem; I draw 500 random files, move them and then it tries doing it again but since it doesn’t update the random list, it fails when it r…
Lost files while tried to move files using python shutil.move
I had 120 files in my source folder which I need to move to a new directory (destination). The destination is made in the function I wrote, based on the string in the filename. For example, here is the function I used. In the function, I am creating the destination folders, based on the ID’s derived fro…
Copy files from multiple specific subfolders
Under the file path D:/src, I have images folders and its subfolders which have a regular structure as follows: I want to copy all .jpg files in Subfolder b from Folder A, B, C and so on to a new folder Subfolder b in D:/dst. How can I do it in Python? Thanks. Here is what I have found from
The Ignore callback for python shutil.copytree() does not accept full path
I’d like to specify full paths to ignorable files and directories when calling shutil.copytree(). Something like After this, the excluded file is still there unless I return simply the filename instead of full path. The thing is I really want to set up a particular file instead of all matching filenames…