Shuntil.copyfile help

[mcesmcsc]

So when I run this, I get "TypeError: bad operand type for unary +: 'str'"

import os
import shutil

src = os.path.expanduser('~/Downloads')
print(src)
os.getcwd()
dst = os.getcwd
print(dst)

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(src):
    for file in files:
        if file.endswith(('.txt', '.md')):
        print(os.path.join(root,file))
        shutil.copyfile(dst, +file)

[micseydel]

Why do you have the unary plus operator there? Why do you intend for it to do?

[mcesmcsc]

I'm trying to copy the .txt and .md files from src to dst

[micseydel]

Why the plus though, specifically? Have you tried just omitting it?

[mcesmcsc]

yeah I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "CopySlides.py", line 14, in <module>
shutil.copyfile(dst, file)
File "C:\Users\mcesm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\shutil.py", line 238, in copyfile
if _samefile(src, dst):
File "C:\Users\mcesm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\shutil.py", line 217, in _samefile
return os.path.samefile(src, dst)
File "C:\Users\mcesm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\genericpath.py", line 100, in samefile
s1 = os.stat(f1)
TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not builtin_function_or_method

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when i run the code with #shutil.copyfile(dst, file) (out of the code) it prints everything with no errors

[snippsat]

join path together for both scr and dst,then get absolute path for both and copying should work fine.

Example tested.

import os
import shutil
from os.path import join

src = r'E:\div_code\pan'
dst = r'E:\div_code\new_folder'
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(src):
    for file in files:
        if file.endswith(('.txt', '.md')):
            shutil.copyfile(join(src, file), join(dst, file))

[mcesmcsc]

Thank you, it worked! Is there a way of copying ALL the files, even duplicate names?