Copy folders to newly created folder and append

[Filthy_McNasty]

This is the first part that works , basically created 3 new mandatory folders (1,2,3) in the main TEST directory and if user wants to add any new one they can do so. This is Python_1

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import os root_path = r"C:\TEST" list_dir = [] while True:     userinput1 = raw_input("Enter the name for Folder1, Folder2, Folder3:")     list_dir.append(userinput1)     userinput2 = None #ask user to respond 'yes' or 'no' as to whether they want to add another directory     while userinput2 != "yes" and userinput2 != "no":         userinput2 = raw_input("Would you like to add another directory? yes/no: ")     if userinput2 == "no":         break for directory in list_dir:     os.mkdir(os.path.join(root_path, directory)) print 'New directories have been created'

Now I need a new script that does the following: Creates new main folder WORKING within TEST, and copy all folders created in Python_1 into newly created WORKING folder with appended _working to the name of the copied folders.

Any ideas?
Thank you very much for your help!

[Larz60+]

change directory os.chdir
New folder os.mkdir (or use shutil)

[Filthy_McNasty]

But I have to use new script, I have to import Pytohn_1 into new script, not change directory and then I copy all created files ......

[wavic]

You can use shutil

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import shutil   shutil.copytree(source, destination)

To rename folders you can use os.walk

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for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):     if dirs:         for directory in dirs:             os.rename(directory, "{}_working".format(directory))

[Filthy_McNasty]

This created new Working folder but for some reason it does not coy created folders from Python_1, any idea where the error is:

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import os import shutil   root_path = r"C:\GEOS455\Assign2" new_main_folder = 'Working'   new_root_path = os.path.join(root_path, new_main_folder) os.mkdir(new_root_path)   list_dir = []  for directory in list_dir:     src = os.path.join(root_path, directory)      dest = os.path.join(new_root_path, directory + '_working')      shutil.copytree(src, dest)

[wavic]

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#bash victor@jerry:~$ ls test_folder/ victor@jerry:~$ mkdir -p test_folder/{1..3}/{1..3}/{1..3} victor@jerry:~$ ls test_folder/ 1  2  3 victor@jerry:~$ tree test_folder/ test_folder/ ├── 1 │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   ├── 2 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   └── 3 │       ├── 1 │       ├── 2 │       └── 3 ├── 2 │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   ├── 2 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   └── 3 │       ├── 1 │       ├── 2 │       └── 3 └── 3     ├── 1     │   ├── 1     │   ├── 2     │   └── 3     ├── 2     │   ├── 1     │   ├── 2     │   └── 3     └── 3         ├── 1         ├── 2         └── 3   39 directories, 0 files   # Python 3  >>>import shutil   >>> shutil.copytree('/home/victor/test_folder', '/home/victor/new_dir')   '/home/victor/new_dir'   # bash victor@jerry:~$ tree new_dir/ new_dir/ ├── 1 │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   ├── 2 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   └── 3 │       ├── 1 │       ├── 2 │       └── 3 ├── 2 │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   ├── 2 │   │   ├── 1 │   │   ├── 2 │   │   └── 3 │   └── 3 │       ├── 1 │       ├── 2 │       └── 3 └── 3     ├── 1     │   ├── 1     │   ├── 2     │   └── 3     ├── 2     │   ├── 1     │   ├── 2     │   └── 3     └── 3         ├── 1         ├── 2         └── 3   39 directories, 0 files

However, my renaming snippet doesn't work. But if get any directory and put it with absolute path in a list then renaming is just iterate over the list.