On Sep 23, 9:31 am, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > Jeremy Conlin wrote: > > On Sep 23, 9:15 am, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > >> Jeremy Conlin wrote: > >>> I am trying to copy a folder hierarchy from one location to another. > >>> I can use the shutil.copytree function to copy the folder tree, but I > >>> don't want the files copied, just the folders. What is a good way to > >>> approach this? > >>> Thanks, > >>> Jeremy > >> Use os.walk and create the directories as they appear? > > >> TJG > > > I was hoping to use os.walk, but this doesn't work because I wont know > > when os.walk descends into a new directory or which directory it > > descends into. Perhaps I don't understand everything about it. > > Some rough but working code might help you out here: > > <code> > import os > > source_dir = "c:/temp/oldtree" > target_dir = "c:/temp/newtree" # should not exist yet > > for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk (source_dir): > os.mkdir (os.path.join (target_dir, dirpath[1+len (source_dir):])) > > os.startfile (target_dir) > > </code> > > TJG
Perfect. That's exactly what I needed. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
