151 – copy files

You can copy files and directories to new locations by using pathlib.Path.copy.

Suppose your filesystem looks like this:

- base/
   - other/
   - myfile.txt

If your current working directory is base, then the snippet

from pathlib import Path

Path("myfile.txt").copy("myfile2.txt")

will create a copy of myfile.txt named myfile2.txt next to it:

- base/
   - other/
   - myfile.txt
   - myfile2.txt

However, if instead you run the snippet

from pathlib import Path

Path("myfile.txt").copy_into("other")

then the file myfile.txt is copied, with the same name, into the folder other:

- base/
   - other/
      - myfile.txt
   - myfile.txt

The methods copy and copy_into accept strings or pathlib.Path objects, although these two examples used strings.