On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM, questions anon
<questions.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have files contained separately in folders labelled by years and months
> and I would like to copy them into another directory where they have
> matching folder names of years and months.
> I can do this for one folder at a time (see below) but I want it to be able
> to go through all the folders (2002/01,2002/02.....2012/11,2012/12) and copy
> files from one directory to another directory with matching subdir names.


Side note: do you have a name, or is your first name truly Questions?


shutil contains a function for recursively copying entire trees.  I
think it's called copytree().  Checking...  ok, found it.

    https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.copytree

Would this be suitable for your situation?
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