How to copy a file along with directory structure/path using python? [duplicate]

Question

First thing I have to mention here, I'm new to python.

Now I have a file located in:

a/long/long/path/to/file.py 

I want to copy to my home directory with a new folder created:

/home/myhome/new_folder 

My expected result is:

/home/myhome/new_folder/a/long/long/path/to/file.py 

Is there any existing library to do that? If no, how can I achieve that?

Answer 1

To create all intermediate-level destination directories you could use os.makedirs() before copying:

import os import shutil  srcfile = 'a/long/long/path/to/file.py' dstroot = '/home/myhome/new_folder'   assert not os.path.isabs(srcfile) dstdir =  os.path.join(dstroot, os.path.dirname(srcfile))  os.makedirs(dstdir) # create all directories, raise an error if it already exists shutil.copy(srcfile, dstdir)