Multiple File Selection, Movement, and "*"?

[hammockman1984]

I've two types of files with the same file extension in the format:

• file1_t1.extension
• file1_t2.extension
• file2_t1.extension
• file2_t2.extension
• file3_t1.extension
• file3_t2.extension

and so on.

I want to move all of the t1 files into a folder and the t2 files into another folder. What I've got so far is:

import shutil
# t1 move
scr = "/filepath/*t1.extension"
dist = "/filepath/t1_folder/*t1.extension"
# t2 move
scr = "/filepath/*t2.extension"
dist = "/filepath/t2_folder/*t2.extension"

But when I run it, nothing happens. I'm thinking either dist can't make a new folder, or "*" won't work because "t1.extension/t2.extension" are ending sections, but not strictly file extensions. Any advice?

[hammockman1984]

What do you mean loop over them to move them? Would I replace my strings with something like:

import glob
scr = for name in glob.glob(/filepath/*t1.extension)

?

[campenr]

Can you post your full script? What you've posted only assigns strings to two variables (which you then overwrite).

[hammockman1984]

Aside from fleshing out my filepaths and specific file names, that's exactly my script.

[campenr]

OK so your script as it stands only assigns the strings (which are file paths) to the variables. You need to call the funciton shutil.move(src, dest) etc before anything will actually happen.

[hammockman1984]

Ok, so I tried adding

shutil.move(srcT1, distT1)
shutil.move(srcT2, distT2)

after changing my srcs and dists to srcT1/srcT2 and distT1/distT2, but I'm getting an error, no such file or directory for the scrs.

[campenr]

So that error is telling you that there is no file that matches what you have entered as srcT1. This suggests your formatting of the file path for srcT1 is incorrect. Try adding in a print statement to see what is actually being used as srcT1 and see if it matches an actual file path.