Move, copy, overwrite files in Python using Python Shutil

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In this video we will learn to move files, copy files, and overwrite files with Python using Shutil.
Python's built-in shutil module does have a few "quirks" that you need to be careful of.
Moving or copying files can lead to files being overwritten.
We will also running into permissions errors.
I will teach you how to overcome these "quirks", so your Python code will be free of surprises or "gotchas"

You can find the notebook here in my Python stuff repository:

[effabe]

Great job. You deserve more viewers keep up with the great work

[thekingofpuppets]

Dude, you have no idea how much this helped me! Def underrated channel, you're awesome:)

[tymothylim]

Thank you very much for this video! It helped me get familiar with shutil and how to use the various functions!

[ShaolinMonk]

You can move your files the way you intended first time, but all it takes is deleting the code segment, which copied files. So, you first copy files, then you move the same files and get an error. But if you move those files without copying, it works okay.

[sairgai]

Thanks, I would like to ask if there is a way to track file name origin and destination directories when I do copy and paste event or sent to command on windows operating system using Python

[DeTodoNoticias]

Man, this actually works. Keep it great!

[aljohnrhey]

I'm already at the part where I move files that already exists in FOLDER B. I wrote the same code block that you wrote but I'm still getting this error. :(

raise Error("Destination path '%s' already exists" % real_dst)

It says that my file1.txt already exists in FOLDER B. I reviewed the code and saw nothing wrong (in my opinion). Is there any other way to overwrite the existing files? I can remove them first before moving the files but overwriting the files is the better approach I think.

[sirishraj]

Hi I have a question.
I want to copy few files from C DRIVE - PROGRAM 86X - FILE XXX TO C DRIVE - WINDOWS - SYSTEM and paste it. Systems will prompt me to select all and continue to copy/paste.. how to write the python script for this could you help me plz.. thank you

[sgracem]

I received this error when I ran
"for file in files:
with open(files) as f:
print(files, f.read())"

PermissionError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <module>
1 for file in files:
----> 2 with open(file) as f:
3 print(file, f.read())

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'main'

[Sean]

what does shutil stand for? Assuming util = utilities. but what's the sh?

[ashokaddanki]

How can we copy a file from source to destination based on date


if suppose i have a file called SAM 12-11-19 in my source
i want to copy that file based on date
if the file with that date already exists in destination copying needs to ignore and search for the new file which is not in my destination


can you help me on this

[gowrishankarreddy]

will the same thing work even the files are pics, i.e, JPG files?