copytree module

class CopyTree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=<function copy2>)

Bases: object

Rewrite shutil.copytree().

Parameters

• src (str (path-like)) – Directory tree to copy.

• dest (str (path-like)) – Directory to move tree to.

• symlinks (Bool, optional) – Whether to follow symlinks. Defaults to False.

• ignore (glob.glob() pattern) – Files to not copy.

• copy_function (shutil copy function, optional) – Defaults to shutil.copy2().

Returns

dst – TODO

Return type

TODO type

Notes

Copying file access times may fail on Windows and if so ignore it.

errors = []

__init__(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=<function copy2>)

property destination_files

make_dest_dirs()

Create the dirs needed in the destination.

copytree()

Let’s try and do shutil.copytree() a little better.

First let’s do everyone the courtesy of checking whether src and dest are pathlib.Path objects.