shutil Questions
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Is there a way to have shutil.make_archive exclude some child directories, or alternatively, is there a way to append directories to a single archive through shutil?
Examples are fun:
/root
/wor...
Tjirebon asked 10/8, 2016 at 21:9
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shutil.copyfile is quite useful for copying files from a location to another. Unfortunately, it does copy the file even though it already exists.
I find rsync --checksum quite convenient in...
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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 copyFil...
Fly asked 2/2, 2016 at 13:54
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In Python, when running shutil.rmtree over a folder that contains a read-only file, the following exception is printed:
File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 216, in rmtree
rmtree(fullnam...
Reshape asked 16/4, 2010 at 21:57
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I have a relatively straight forward snippet which throws an error:
import shutil
abspath_to_source_file = '/media/moose/VFF1147/MAP_DATA/BACK/B0000040.DFT'
target_dir = '/media/moose/9C33-6BBD/PR...
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I am routinely missing the last few kb of a file I am trying to copy using shutil copyfile.
I did some research and do see someone asking about something similar here:
python shutil copy function...
Weinberg asked 21/7, 2015 at 18:29
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I know that if I want to copy a file in Python but not overwrite the destination I can use code like this:
if os.path.exists(dest):
raise Exception("Destination file exists!")
else:
shutil.copy2...
Cloison asked 25/5, 2015 at 23:20
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Problem: Using shutil.copy() to copy a file to a FAT16 mounted filesystem in Linux fails (Python 2.7.x). The failure is shutil internal error and failing actually on shutil.chmod, which shutil.copy...
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What is the fastest way to copy files in a python program?
It takes at least 3 times longer to copy files with shutil.copyfile() versus to a regular right-click-copy > right-click-paste using Wi...
Hyaloplasm asked 27/2, 2014 at 19:37
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So I'm building a simple script that backs up certain documents to my second hard-drive (you never know what could happen!). So, I used the shutil.copytree function to replicate my data on the seco...
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I have some directories that I need to update I was using the following code
for newdir in newdirs:
olddir = newdir.replace('h:\\','G:\\').replace('_academic','')
shutil.rmtree(newdir)
shutil.c...
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I'm writing a python script that copies a file using shutil.copyfile() on Linux. During the copying, other processes may be trying to read the file. Is the following sufficient to ensure that an ex...
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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 ...
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I want to copy a file then start writing the new file:
shutil.copyfile("largefile","newlargefile")
nwLrgFile=open("newlargefile",'a')
nwLrgFile.write("hello\n")
However, when I do the above hell...
Loosen asked 7/2, 2013 at 0:52
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Im rather new to python but I have been attemping to learn the basics.
Anyways I have several files that once i have extracted from their zip files (painfully slow process btw) produce several hund...
Bucella asked 16/11, 2011 at 16:25
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I am relatively new to python. I am trying to copy a directory to another directory maintaining the structure.
I am using
shutil.copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None,
copy_function=...
Jeramie asked 10/8, 2011 at 14:43
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I have read the documentation provided for shutil.move and copy2. From my understanding move just calls the copy2 function, then calls the remove function, while copy2 calls copy then copystat. Tha...
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I am using the rmtree method from shutil in Python (2.7).
What are all possible exceptions that can occur while calling this method?
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I knew what this module is for, I just don't know why they choose this name - shutil. It is hard to remember this kind of "random" name if I don't know where it come from. Please give me some...
Interstate asked 10/3, 2011 at 18:4
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Is there an easy way to emulate the command cp -r from_dir/* to_dir with python? shutil.copytree is not suitable because to_dir exists.
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I have a little script that moves files around in my photo collection, but it runs a bit slow.
I think it's because I'm doing one file move at a time. I'm guessing I can speed this up if I do all ...
Subhead asked 9/10, 2010 at 7:31
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I have a such code:
for file in file_list:
shutil.copyfile(file,newpath)
#do further actions
And here is the question, at #do further actions I use the copied f iles thus I need to make sure th...
Spool asked 29/6, 2010 at 13:49
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