With this script we can make a new directory and move files with a given ending into the directory.
This was not a task in the book, but just something I thought of solving. Quite interesting to know what you could do with string operations like “startWith” and “endWith”.
# creates new directory and moves python script files into the newly created directory # Usage python mvdir.py import os import sys import shutil # TODO: GET ENDING AND DESTINATION STRINGS if len(sys.argv) >= 4: ending = sys.argv[1] source = sys.argv[2] destination = sys.argv[3] destination = os.path.abspath(destination) source = os.path.abspath(source) exception = None if len(sys.argv) == 5: exception = sys.argv[4] # CREATE NEW DIRECTORY IF DOES NOT EXISTS ELSE JUST MOVE if os.path.exists(source) and os.path.isdir(source): if not os.path.exists(destination): os.mkdir(destination) for filename in os.listdir(source): if filename.endswith(ending): #LIST ALL FILES AND MOVE ONLY THOSE ENDING WITH if exception == None or (exception and exception not in filename): shutil.move(os.path.abspath(filename), destination) print("{} file was moved to {}".format( filename, destination)) else: print("File {} was not moved".format(filename)) else: print("File {} does not end with {}".format(filename, ending)) else: print("Source does not exist") else: print("Usage: python mvdir.py ")