Thank you for your response. I have created some sample folders and tried your method but I receive an error: IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/Data/test1/2011/01'
The script I use is: destination_prefix="/Data/test/" source_prefix="/Data/test1/" for year in range(2011, 2012): year = str(year) for month in range(1, 13): # convert to a string with leading 0 if needed month = "%02d" % month source = os.path.join(source_prefix, year, month) destination = os.path.join(destination_prefix, year, month) shutil.copy(source, destination) On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:25:27AM +1000, questions anon 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. > > You need a loop. > > Currently you do something like this: > > > source="/Data/allclimatedata/2002/01" > destination="/Data/rainfall/2002/01" > copy files from source to destination > > > The dumb way would be to manually list out every pair of directories: > > > source="/Data/allclimatedata/2002/01" > destination="/Data/rainfall/2002/01" > copy files from source to destination > source="/Data/allclimatedata/2002/02" > destination="/Data/rainfall/2002/02" > copy files from source to destination > ... and so on, for 12 months per year and however many years you need > > > > The smart way is to get Python to do the work for you: > > > source_prefix = "/Data/allclimatedata" > destination_prefix = "/Data/rainfall" > for year in range(2002, 2013): > year = str(year) > for month in range(1, 13): > # convert to a string with leading 0 if needed > month = "%02d" % month > source = os.path.join(source_prefix, year, month) > destination = os.path.join(destination_prefix, year, month) > copy files from source to destination > > > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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