Python Module shutil
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External
Internal
Overview
The shutil
module offers high-level operations on files and collections of files. In particular, functions are provided which support file copying and removal. For operations on individual files, see also the os
module.
Recursively Copy a Directory
import shutil
shutil.copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=copy2, ignore_dangling_symlinks=False, dirs_exist_ok=False)
All required directories will be created if they don't exist.
Arguments
ignore
The optional ignore argument is a callable. If given, it is called with the src
parameter, which is the directory being visited by copytree()
, and names
which is the list of src
contents, as returned by os.listdir()
:
callable(src, names) -> ignored_names
Since copytree()
is called recursively, the callable will be called once for each directory that is copied. It returns a list of names relative to the src
directory that should not be copied. shutil already contains a function ignore_patterns
:
copytree(source, destination, ignore=ignore_patterns('*.pyc', 'tmp*'))
Recursively Delete a Directory
import shutil
shutil.rmtree('/path/to/the/dir/')
Organizatorium
from shutil import which
for i in m:
print("{:20}{:7}".format(m[i], "OK" if which(i) else "missing"))