how to move files to another folder

[agatte]

Hello,

I would like to move specific files (that have "*CT*" in filenames) from one folder to another new folder
I tried to do that with shutil but it doesnt work in my case.
I can't move files to ct directory. It created me a new file with the name "ct".

ctDir = str("ct")
petDir = str("pet")
os.mkdir(ctDir)
os.mkdir(petDir)

inputPath = "C:\\data\\test2\\"

print("PET files")
os.chdir(inputPath)
for file in glob.glob("*PT*"):
    print(file)
    petDirMove = str(petDir) + "\\" + file
    shutil.move(file,petDirMove)

print("CT files")
os.chdir(inputPath)
for file in glob.glob("*CT*"):
    print(file)
    ctDirMove = str(ctDir) + "\\" + file   
    shutil.move(file, ctDirMove)

I would be appreciate for any help please.

[ichabod801]

Can you be more specific about how it is not working? Are you getting an error or are the files just not moving.

Some things I see that are probably not the problem: Don't use file for a variable name. That word already has meaning in Python, and by using it as a variable name you change it's meaning, for your code and possibly shutil's code. I would use os.path.join to calculate petDirMove and ctDirMove. Note that str("pet") is equivalent to "pet" so you get rid of most if not all of those calls to str.