Working with directories in Python

List files in a directory

# Here we list the file exts of files in a dir
import os
from pathlib import Path

with os.scandir("/a/directory") as dir:
    for entry in dir:
        print(Path(entry).suffix)

List files without extension


file = "/some/file/with/markdown.md"
return os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file))[0]
# markdown

Create a directory

import os

os.makedirs("/name/of/directory")

Check if directory exists, remove if so

import os
import shutil

if os.path.isdir("/name/of/directory")
    shutil.rmtree(target_dir)

Copy a nested directory from location to another

import shutil

shutil.copytree("/source/dir", "/target/dir", dir_exist_ok=True)
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