Copy files from different source to a single folder?

[eakDev]

Hi guys,

Ok I have been playing with how to copy in python with the following:
copyfile - only works when source and destination are both file
copy - can copy to a directory but i am getting an IOError: Permission Denied
copytree - does not work when destination folder exist

All i want is to copy several files from different directories into a single folder. Help please.

[micseydel]

Please provide your full code that reproduces the problem, and the full traceback for any code that you get an error when you run. I suspect that the second version you list here is the one that will end up working but requires a fix of some kind.

[Ephexeve]

Hi guys,

Ok I have been playing with how to copy in python with the following:
copyfile - only works when source and destination are both file
copy - can copy to a directory but i am getting an IOError: Permission Denied
copytree - does not work when destination folder exist

All i want is to copy several files from different directories into a single folder. Help please.

You can easily do that with shutil.

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files = os.listdir(".")
for f in files:
    shutil.copy(f, dest_folter)