I've been using os.rename
to move files in Python. However, it appears that this fails if you try to move files between one mountpoint and another (on Linux).
Is there a Python library or function to move files between mountpoints, similar to mv
on Linux?
This is a common caveat with os.rename
. The higher level shutil
module and it's move
method works around this for you by using os.rename()
or shutil.copy2()
as appropriate.
One thing to keep in mind is that this loses the atomic guarantee that os.rename
has if it isn't on the same filesystem.
See https://docs.python.org/2/library/shutil.html#shutil.move
You can use mv
using subprocess
from subprocess import check_call
check_call(["mv","src","dest"])
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