Copy multiple files in Python

Question

How to copy all the files present in one directory to another directory using Python  I have the source path and the destination path as string

User · Answer

Here is another example of a recursive copy function that lets you copy the contents of the directory (including sub-directories) one file at a time, which I used to solve this problem.

import os
import shutil

def recursive_copy(src, dest):
    """
    Copy each file from src dir to dest dir, including sub-directories.
    """
    for item in os.listdir(src):
        file_path = os.path.join(src, item)

        # if item is a file, copy it
        if os.path.isfile(file_path):
            shutil.copy(file_path, dest)

        # else if item is a folder, recurse 
        elif os.path.isdir(file_path):
            new_dest = os.path.join(dest, item)
            os.mkdir(new_dest)
            recursive_copy(file_path, new_dest)

EDIT: If you can, definitely just use shutil.copytree(src, dest). This requires that that destination folder does not already exist though. If you need to copy files into an existing folder, the above method works well!

User · Answer

import os import shutil os chdir  C       Make sure you add your source and destination path below  dir src     C   foooo     dir dst     C   toooo      for filename in os listdir dir src       if filename endswith   txt            shutil copy  dir src   filename  dir dst      print filename

User · Answer

If you don t want to copy the whole tree  with subdirs etc   use or glob glob  path to dir       to get a list of all the filenames  loop over the list and use shutil copy to copy each file   for filename in glob glob os path join source dir               shutil copy filename  dest dir

User · Answer

Look at shutil in the Python docs  specifically the copytree command  If the destination directory already exists  try  shutil copytree source  destination  dirs exist ok True

User · Answer

You can use os listdir   to get the files in the source directory  os path isfile   to see if they are regular files  including symbolic links on  nix systems   and shutil copy to do the copying   The following code copies only the regular files from the source directory into the destination directory  I m assuming you don t want any sub-directories copied    import os import shutil src files   os listdir src  for file name in src files      full file name   os path join src  file name      if os path isfile full file name           shutil copy full file name  dest

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def recursive copy files source path  destination path  override False               Recursive copies files from source  to destination directory       param source path  source directory      param destination path  destination directory      param override if True all files will be overridden otherwise skip if file exist      return  count of copied files             files count   0     if not os path exists destination path           os mkdir destination path      items   glob glob source path             for item in items          if os path isdir item               path   os path join destination path  item split      -1               files count    recursive copy files source path item  destination path path  override override          else              file   os path join destination path  item split      -1               if not os path exists file  or override                  shutil copyfile item  file                  files count    1     return files count

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