How to move or copy a figure with .png extension from one folder to other folder?

Question

I have save a figure in folder Dist with .png extension. Now in a for loop I want to implement a condition that if i<3 move or copy a certain figure from one folder to other. How can I do that in python?

Answer 1

Here is two methods of how you can copy a file to another folder:

For example if we have this tree directory:

.
├── destination  # destination directory
├── moving.py    # script that copies files
└── test.png     # file to be copied

moving.py:

import os
import shutil


# Method 1
def copy_file(filename: str, destination: str):
    """Copy file to destination using shutil package
       :param: filename is the file name path
       :param: destination is the destination path
    """
    shutil.copy(filename, destination)


# Method 2
def copy_file2(filename: str, destination: str):
    """Copy file to destination"""
    data = b''
    # Read the file in binary mode
    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
        data = f.read()
    # Write the file in binary mode
    with open(os.path.join(destination, filename), 'wb') as f:
        f.write(data)


# Example
filename = 'test.png'
destination = 'destination'
copy_file(filename, destination)
# copy_file2(filename, destination)

Both methods will copy the file to the new destination path and it'll keep the original name of the copied file.

Bonus: For more informations about shutil.copy() function i recommend you reading the official documentation