duplicate and rename a folder and its contents

[mquinta]

Hi all!
I'm having trouble on doing the following task..
I have a folder, in it, other subFolders witch one with their own list of files (example: ".ma", ".tif", ".jpg", etc.).

So I need to duplicate this folder, rename it, and then rename all the files inside it (the only thing not need to rename are the subFolders).

So I've been trying with "shutil" and with "commands.getstatusoutput" but dont realy know where to go...

Any help would be very appreciated, thanks in advance!

[bvdet]

Look into the os module. os.walk(dir_name) will return a generator object that walks through a directory tree. The generator produces tuples of dirpath, dirnames, filenames. Example:

import os
 
dir_name = (os.path.join('X:/', some_dir, some_subdir))
 
a = os.walk(dir_name)
 
for root, dir, file in a:
 
    print "Root directory: %s" % (root)
 
    if dir:
        print "Subdirectories under %s:" % (root)
        dirList = map(lambda x: '%s\n' % (x), dir)
        dirStr = "".join(dirList)
        print dirStr
    else:
        print "There are no subdirectories under directory %s\n" % (root)
 
    if file:
        print "Files in directory %s:" % (root)
        fileList = map(lambda x: '%s\n' % (os.path.join(root, x)), file)
        fileStr = "".join(fileList)
        print fileStr
    else:
        print "There are no files in directory %s\n" % (root)

You can use this generator to reconstruct the directory and its subdirectories and files using os.mkdir() or os.mkdirs() and shutil functions.

[mquinta]

Eyy, thank you so much, the example helped a lot!! :)