How to move file from folder A to folder B in python?-CodePudding

What am I doing wrong and what do i need to improve?

import os
source = "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\ala.txt"
destination = "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\zzz.txt"

try:
    if os.path.exists(destination):
        print("There is already a file there")
    else:
        os.replace(source,destination)
        print(source " was moved")
except FileNotFoundError:
    print(source " was not found")

CodePudding user response：

Could you try this one?

import os

os.rename("C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\ala.txt", "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\zzz.txt")

CodePudding user response：

You can try importing shutil and calling shutil.move(source,destination). The shutil module provides functions for moving files, as well as entire folders.

CodePudding user response：

You can also try using the shutil package like this :

import os
import shutil

source = r"C:\Users\omkar\Desktop\source"
destination = r"C:\Users\omkar\Desktop\destination"

allfiles = os.listdir(source)

for f in allfiles:

    shutil.move(source  r"\\"   f, destination)