β Stop dragging or zipping files manually
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Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. β Irrespective of whatever work you do, you definitely have a lot going on with the files, folders on your computers. There are a LOT OF THEM. Today, let look at Python's shutil module which can organize them in few lines of code. β π₯ Import/Load the modules and get ready os module will be used to interact (access files) with operating system. Quick refresher here.
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import shutil, os
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β π Copy files
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shutil.copy("sample.txt", "copy_sample.txt")
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'copy_sample.txt'
β β Check if copied (or any) file exists
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print(os.path.exists("copy_sample.txt"))
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True
β πΎ Copy entire folders
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shutil.copytree("myfolder", "myfolder_backup") print(os.path.exists("myfolder_backup"))
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True
β ποΈ Delete (carefully) the entire folder
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shutil.rmtree("myfolder_backup") print(os.path.exists("myfolder_backup"))
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False
β π Instant backup (zip) a folder
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shutil.make_archive("project_backup", "zip", "myfolder") print(os.path.exists("project_backup.zip"))
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True
β π Instant restore (unzip) a folder
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shutil.unpack_archive("project_backup.zip", "restored_folder") print(os.path.exists("restored_folder"))
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True
β π Check free space on your computer
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total, used, free = shutil.disk_usage(".") print((free // (1024**3)), "GB free")
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118 GB free
β π§ Find if a tool exists on your computer and its location
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print(shutil.which("python"))
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/usr/bin/python/python310/python.exe
βπ£ That's it for today! If you liked it, please share it with anyone who will find it useful and share your feedback below πΌ
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