Python files not moving to new directory?

Question

I created a script in order to move modified or new files from one folder to another. When running it, it displays no errors and works fine. Yet no files had moved. Why is this happening?

import os
from shutil import move
from time import time

def mins_since_mod(fname):
    """Return time from last modification in minutes"""
    return (time() - os.path.getmtime(fname)) / 60

PARENT_DIR = 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\FolderA'
MOVE_DIR = 'C:\Users\Student\Desktop\FolderB'

# Loop over files in PARENT_DIR
for fname in os.listdir(PARENT_DIR):
    # If the file is a directory and was modified in last 15 minutes
    if os.path.isdir(fname) and mins_since_mod(fname) < 15:
        move(fname, MOVE_DIR) # move it to a new location

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1623039/python-debugging-tips — jarmod, Dec 08 '16 at 01:20
`os.listdir` returns directory entries, not full path names. I think. — melpomene, Dec 08 '16 at 01:37
What version of Python are you on? Modern Python (3.5) has a nice `os.listdir` replacement that would simplify a lot of this. — ShadowRanger, Dec 08 '16 at 03:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '16 at 02:48

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This may help:

# Loop over files in PARENT_DIR
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(PARENT_DIR):
    for fname in dirs:
        if mins_since_mod(fname) < 15:
            move(os.path.join(root, fname), MOVE_DIR) # move it to a new location

answered Dec 08 '16 at 02:48

Hou Lu

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