shutil.move IOError: [Errno 2] - When in loop [closed]

Question

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center.

Closed 8 years ago.

If I run shutil.move(file, dest) on its own it works fine, the problem I'm having is when I loop through, the loop works fine without the shutil.move.

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'test.txt'

path = '/media/usb/Test/'
dest = '/media/usb/Done/'

for file in os.listdir(path):
    fullpath = os.path.join(path, file)
    f = open( fullpath , 'r')
    dataname = f.name
    print dataname

    shutil.copy(file, dest)

I know that this is something simple and I've tried a number of different things but just can't get my head around this.

Answer 1

You are giving shutil.copy the filename (file), and not the full path, so it can find the file.

Maybe you meant :

shutil.copy(fullpath, dest)