shutil error: "Module 'shutil' has no 'copy' member"

Question

I am still learning python but got stuck here:

from pathlib import Path
import os
import shutil
p = Path.home()
shutil.copy(p / 'G:\souce.txt', p / 'G:\dest.text')

The error is:

shutil: shutil
Anomalous backslash in string: '\s'. String constant might be missing an r prefix.pylint(anomalous- 
backslash-in-string)
Anomalous backslash in string: '\d'. String constant might be missing an r prefix.pylint(anomalous- 
backslash-in-string)
Module 'shutil' has no 'copy' memberpylint(no-member)

Not able to go for the next step. So any suggestions please.

Are you sure that you want to concatenate `G:\souce.txt` ? Is there where the file located? — Tomer Shetah, Dec 14 '20 at 08:43
I just want to copy the content of the file souce.txt to G:\dest.txt. — MVM, Dec 24 '20 at 11:49
Does this answer your question? [How do I copy a file in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123198/how-do-i-copy-a-file-in-python) — Tomer Shetah, Dec 24 '20 at 11:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '20 at 12:15

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You can just do:

import shutil 
shutil.copy('G:\souce.txt', 'G:\dest.text')

answered Dec 24 '20 at 12:15

Tomer Shetah

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