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Hi all,

i am just learning about the modul shutil and tried to move a file to a destination folder.
It works. However if i try to run the script again and overwrite the file, it doesnt work, because the file exists alreay in the destination.

shutil.move(r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Source\t.txt', r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Destination')

is there a way to overwrite the file if it exits ?

You may have to remove the file if it exists already

if os.path.exists(r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Source\t.txt'):
   os.remove(r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Source\t.txt')

i guess it should be like this (destination instead of source):

if os.path.exists(r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Destination\t.txt'):
   os.remove(r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Destination\t.txt')

hmm i thought there is some other way, without having to do this "manually"

thanks a lot