So, I've been trying to write a python script to move .jpg's from one file to another and although the program itself (seemingly) runs to completion as it prints "Task completed", the files do not actually move from one folder to the other. This is the script:
import shutil
from os.path import join
import os
source = join('C','Users','Francisco','Desktop','Test')
destination1 = join('C','Users','Francisco','Desktop','Archive1')
for files in source:
if files.endswith(".JPG"):
shutil.move(source,destination1)
print("Task completed");
I've tried running the script through both Command Prompt and the IDLE editor module, and even have Python 3.x set as a path in my Environment Variables, but nothing seems to work. I've become very frustrated by being unable to move the images from one folder to another and would like to see if you guy could help me figure out what the issue is here, be it a problem with the script itself or with the python software on my computer.
I'm a beginner at scripting with python so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You're looping through your source path characters, not through the actual folder, a quick fix:
import os
import shutil
source = os.path.join('C:\\', 'Users', 'Francisco', 'Desktop', 'Test')
destination1 = os.path.join('C:\\', 'Users', 'Francisco', 'Desktop', 'Archive1')
for filename in os.listdir(source):
if filename.lower().endswith(".jpg"):
shutil.move(os.path.join(source, filename), destination1)
print("Task completed")
You've got some bugs in your code:
import shutil
from os.path import join
import os
source_dir = join('C:/','Users','Francisco','Desktop','Test')
dest = join('C:/','Users','Francisco','Desktop','Archive1')
files = os.listdir(source_dir)
for source in files:
if source.endswith(".JPG"):
shutil.move(source, dest)
print("Task completed");
Related
How do I get the current file's directory path?
I tried:
>>> os.path.abspath(__file__)
'C:\\python27\\test.py'
But I want:
'C:\\python27\\'
The special variable __file__ contains the path to the current file. From that we can get the directory using either pathlib or the os.path module.
Python 3
For the directory of the script being run:
import pathlib
pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve()
For the current working directory:
import pathlib
pathlib.Path().resolve()
Python 2 and 3
For the directory of the script being run:
import os
os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
If you mean the current working directory:
import os
os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
Note that before and after file is two underscores, not just one.
Also note that if you are running interactively or have loaded code from something other than a file (eg: a database or online resource), __file__ may not be set since there is no notion of "current file". The above answer assumes the most common scenario of running a python script that is in a file.
References
pathlib in the python documentation.
os.path - Python 2.7, os.path - Python 3
os.getcwd - Python 2.7, os.getcwd - Python 3
what does the __file__ variable mean/do?
Using Path from pathlib is the recommended way since Python 3:
from pathlib import Path
print("File Path:", Path(__file__).absolute())
print("Directory Path:", Path().absolute()) # Directory of current working directory, not __file__
Note: If using Jupyter Notebook, __file__ doesn't return expected value, so Path().absolute() has to be used.
In Python 3.x I do:
from pathlib import Path
path = Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
Explanation:
Path(__file__) is the path to the current file.
.parent gives you the directory the file is in.
.absolute() gives you the full absolute path to it.
Using pathlib is the modern way to work with paths. If you need it as a string later for some reason, just do str(path).
Try this:
import os
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
import os
print(os.path.dirname(__file__))
I found the following commands return the full path of the parent directory of a Python 3 script.
Python 3 Script:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pathlib import Path
#Get the absolute path of a Python3.6 and above script.
dir1 = Path().resolve() #Make the path absolute, resolving any symlinks.
dir2 = Path().absolute() #See #RonKalian answer
dir3 = Path(__file__).parent.absolute() #See #Arminius answer
dir4 = Path(__file__).parent
print(f'dir1={dir1}\ndir2={dir2}\ndir3={dir3}\ndir4={dir4}')
REMARKS !!!!
dir1 and dir2 works only when running a script located in the current working directory, but will break in any other case.
Given that Path(__file__).is_absolute() is True, the use of the .absolute() method in dir3 appears redundant.
The shortest command that works is dir4.
Explanation links: .resolve(), .absolute(), Path(file).parent().absolute()
USEFUL PATH PROPERTIES IN PYTHON:
from pathlib import Path
#Returns the path of the current directory
mypath = Path().absolute()
print('Absolute path : {}'.format(mypath))
#if you want to go to any other file inside the subdirectories of the directory path got from above method
filePath = mypath/'data'/'fuel_econ.csv'
print('File path : {}'.format(filePath))
#To check if file present in that directory or Not
isfileExist = filePath.exists()
print('isfileExist : {}'.format(isfileExist))
#To check if the path is a directory or a File
isadirectory = filePath.is_dir()
print('isadirectory : {}'.format(isadirectory))
#To get the extension of the file
fileExtension = mypath/'data'/'fuel_econ.csv'
print('File extension : {}'.format(filePath.suffix))
OUTPUT:
ABSOLUTE PATH IS THE PATH WHERE YOUR PYTHON FILE IS PLACED
Absolute path : D:\Study\Machine Learning\Jupitor Notebook\JupytorNotebookTest2\Udacity_Scripts\Matplotlib and seaborn Part2
File path : D:\Study\Machine Learning\Jupitor Notebook\JupytorNotebookTest2\Udacity_Scripts\Matplotlib and seaborn Part2\data\fuel_econ.csv
isfileExist : True
isadirectory : False
File extension : .csv
works also if __file__ is not available (jupyter notebooks)
import sys
from pathlib import Path
path_file = Path(sys.path[0])
print(path_file)
Also uses pathlib, which is the object oriented way of handling paths in python 3.
IPython has a magic command %pwd to get the present working directory. It can be used in following way:
from IPython.terminal.embed import InteractiveShellEmbed
ip_shell = InteractiveShellEmbed()
present_working_directory = ip_shell.magic("%pwd")
On IPython Jupyter Notebook %pwd can be used directly as following:
present_working_directory = %pwd
I have made a function to use when running python under IIS in CGI in order to get the current folder:
import os
def getLocalFolder():
path=str(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))).split(os.sep)
return path[len(path)-1]
Python 2 and 3
You can simply also do:
from os import sep
print(__file__.rsplit(sep, 1)[0] + sep)
Which outputs something like:
C:\my_folder\sub_folder\
This can be done without a module.
def get_path():
return (__file__.replace(f"<your script name>.py", ""))
print(get_path())
I have the following code:
import datetime as date
import os
import pdfkit
import getpass #Gets me current username
username = getpass.getuser()
path = f"/home/{username}/Data"
relative_path = os.path.relpath(path, os.getcwd())
destination = os.path.join(relative_path, 'data.pdf')
pdfkit.from_url('www.google.com', f'{destination}/data.pdf')
I want the pdf to be saved in windows equivalent of /home/[username]/datafolder. I don't really need to use use linux or mac but for academic reasons i have decided to use the relative path method.
This code makes sense to me but for some reason it is not the directory i want it to be because when i specify the path this way the pdf generator, generates an error.
Error: Unable to write to destination
Exit with code 1, due to unknown error.
I know the error is in the last line of code where i have specified '/relative_path/data.pdf'. Could you please advise how i can resolve this issue?
Update 1:
As suggested by #Matthias I have updated the code but I am still getting the same error
Update 2:
I tried:
from pathlib import Path
destination = Path.home()
try:
os.mkdir(destination\Data)
except OSError as error:
print(error)
But it is still not pointing to the directory Data
Update 3
I know i am getting closer:
import pdfkit
import datetime as date
import calendar
import os.path
import getpass
username = getpass.getuser()
path = f"/home/{username}/Data"
os.makedirs(relative_path, exist_ok=True)
#start = os.getcwd()
relative_path = os.path.relpath(path, os.getcwd())
destination = os.path.join(relative_path, 'data.pdf')
pdfkit.from_url('www.google.com', f'{relative_path}/data.pdf')
At this point the code is executes but the folder Data was not created not am i able to locate data.pdf. I did get sucessful run though:
Loading pages (1/6)
Counting pages (2/6)
Resolving links (4/6)
Loading headers and footers (5/6)
Printing pages (6/6)
Done
Any ideas on how i can get this working correctly? The code does not produce the folder or the file?
Just check by putting
relative_path line before os.makedirs
As below
import pdfkit
import datetime as date
import calendar
import os.path
import getpass
username = getpass.getuser()
#path = os.path.join("home","{username}","Data")
# in case of window you will need to add drive "c:" or "d:" before os.path.sep
path = os.path.join(,"home",username,"Data")
relative_path = os.path.relpath(path, os.getcwd())
os.makedirs(relative_path, exist_ok=True)
#start = os.getcwd()
destination = os.path.join(relative_path, 'data.pdf')
pdfkit.from_url('www.google.com', f'{relative_path}/data.pdf')
Maybe you could change your last line to:
pdfkit.from_url('www.google.com', f'{relative_path}/data.pdf')
in order to get it to save to the home directory.
Perhaps the issue is that the directory doesn't exist. You could use os.makedirs to create the directory, using the exist_ok=True flag in case the directory already exists. Like so:
import datetime as date
import os
import pdfkit
import getpass #Gets me current username
username = getpass.getuser()
path = f"/home/{username}/Data"
os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
pdfkit.from_url('www.google.com', f'{path}/data.pdf')
You can use os.environ. Run this little script on your machine:
import os
for key, value in os.environ.items():
print(key, '-->', value)
and see for yourself what you need exactly. It's portable as well.
Let's say you want to get the path of the user's home directory. You could get it from os.environ['HOME'] and then create the path to the target directory using os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'target_directory_name').
You won't be able to create files in a directory if you don't have the required permissions, though.
User folders in windows are stored in "/Users/{username}/*". I don't know if you are trying to make this compatible for multiple OSs but if you just want to make this run on windows try:
path = f"/Users/{username}/Data"
start = f"/Users/{username}"
Hope it works.:)
Edit:
To get the home directory of a user regardless of OS you could use
from pathlib import Path
home = str(Path.home())
sorry for the late edit.
Is it possible to delete all folders inside a folder without using a specific path?, Here i am moving the contents of the file then after that i want to delete if it is a dir
import os, zipfile
import shutil
import os
from os import path
dir_name = 'C:\\Users\\Guest\\Desktop\\OJT\\samples'
destination = 'C:\\Users\\Guest\\Desktop\\OJT\\scanner\\test'
for path, subdirs, files in os.walk(destination):
for name in files:
filename = os.path.join(path, name)
shutil.copy2(filename, destination)
Yes it is, Use shutil's rmtree method.
import shutil
shutil.rmtree('directory') # the directory you want to remove
os.listdir()
You can also use os.rmdir but that won't work if there is any content in it.
If you want to check if that specific path is a directory then you can use os.path.isdir then run rmtree if that returns TRUE
And incase you want to keep the root folder intact then you could walk that directory and calling rmtree on each item.
As suggested by #Vineeth Sai earlier, If you want to delete all sub directories in a directory, just loop through each file with os.listdir() and if the file is a directory, apply shutil.rmtree():
from os import listdir
from os.path import abspath
from os.path import isdir
from os.path import join
from shutil import rmtree
path = 'YOUR PATH HERE'
for file in listdir(path):
full_path = join(abspath(path), file)
if isdir(full_path):
rmtree(full_path)
The above also uses os.isdir() to check if a file is a directory.
If Vineeth's answer is not suitable for your case, you could you subprocess module to run os specific commands like below
import subprocess
subprocess.call('rm -rf /path/of/the/dirctory/*', shell=True)
The above command is linux specific, you could use windows counterpart of the same command above.
Note - Here shell=True will expand * into files/folders.
Also, note Vineeth's answer is os independent, and above will be os specific. Be cautious.
P.S. - You can also run powershell commands using subprocess module.
I attended an interview and they asked me to write a script to move from one directory to another and delete only the .html files.
Now I tried to do this at first using os.remove() . Following is the code:
def rm_files():
import os
from os import path
folder='J:\\Test\\'
for files in os.listdir(folder):
file_path=path.join(folder,files)
os.remove(file_path)
The problem I am facing here is that I cannot figure out how to delete only .html files in my directory
Then I tried using glob. Following is the code:
def rm_files1():
import os
import glob
files=glob.glob('J:\\Test\\*.html')
for f in files:
os.remove(f)
Using glob I can delete the .html files but still I cannot figure out how to implement the logic of moving from one directory to another.
And along with that can someone please help me figure out how to delete a specific file type using os.remove() ?
Thank you.
Either of these methods should work. For the first way, you could just string.endswith(suffix) like so:
def rm_files():
import os
from os import path
folder='J:\\Test\\'
for files in os.listdir(folder):
file_path=path.join(folder,files)
if file_path.endswith(".html"):
os.remove(file_path)
Or if you prefer glob, moving directories is fairly straightforward: os.chdir(path) like this:
def rm_files1():
import os
os.chdir('J:\\Test')
import glob
files=glob.glob('J:\\Test\\*.html')
for f in files:
os.remove(f)
Though it seems unnecessary since glob is taking an absolute path anyway.
Your problem can be described in the following steps.
move to specific directory. This can be done using os.chdir()
grab list of all *.html files. Use glob.glob('*.html')
remove the files. use os.remove()
Putting it all together:
import os
import glob
import sys
def remove_html_files(path_name):
# move to desired path, if it exists
if os.path.exists(path_name):
os.chdir(path_name)
else:
print('invalid path')
sys.exit(1)
# grab list of all html files in current directory
file_list = glob.glob('*.html')
#delete files
for f in file_list:
os.remove(f)
#output messaage
print('deleted '+ str(len(file_list))+' files in folder' + path_name)
# call the function
remove_html_files(path_name)
To remove all html files in a directory with os.remove() you can do like this using endswith() function
import sys
import os
from os import listdir
directory = "J:\\Test\\"
test = os.listdir( directory )
for item in test:
if item.endswith(".html"):
os.remove( os.path.join( directory, item ) )
I am trying to create a script where all the file extensions are changed from .bmp to .jpg. There have been some helpful answers I have found but I still can't get my script to work. If anyone had any suggestions on what I might need to change, it would be greatly appreciated. The script doesn't come up with any errors but none of the file extensions in the folder change.
import os, glob, sys
folder = '\\stsosage\...\LegalCardsTest'
for filename in glob.iglob(os.path.join(folder, '*.bmp')):
os.rename(filename, filename[:-4] + '.jpg')
try this:
import os
def walk_dir(targetdir,topdown=True):
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(targetdir, topdown):
for name in files:
os.rename(targetdir+name, targetdir+name.replace(".bmp",".jpg"))
walk_dir(FOLDER_PATH_END_WITH_\)
My Code:
import os
os.chdir(input("Enter dir: "))
endv = input("File extension before: ")
endn = input("File extension after: ")
for s in os.listdir(pfad):
if "."+endv in s:
try:os.rename(s,s.replace("."+endv,"."+endn)
except BaseException e:print(e)
Hope it works fine.
filename is only the file name and not the entire path that you need to provide to you mv function.
Try to concat folder with filename in your mv command.