Way for Pathlib Path.rename() to create intermediate directories?

Question

I'm trying to move some files around on my filesystem. I'd like to use Python 3's Pathlib to do so, in particular, Path.rename.

Say I want to move Path('/a/b/c/d') to Path('/w/x/y/z').

Path('/a/b/c/d').rename(Path('/w/x/y/z'))

gives

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/a/b/c/d' -> '/w/x/y/z'

I can fix this with

os.makedirs(Path('/w/x/y', exist_ok=True)
Path('/a/b/c/d').rename(Path('/w/x/y/z'))

But that's less elegant than old school os, which has a method called renames which does this for you. Is there a way to do this in Pathlib?

Answer 1

It's not ideal, but something like the following would work

from pathlib import Path

def ensure(path):
    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    return path

Path('a/b/c/before.txt').rename(ensure(Path('x/y/z/moved.txt')))

Pathlib.Path.mkdir doesn't return anything, so it seems like some sort of wrapper like this is necessary.

Answer 2

pathlib.Path.mkdir() is available:

newname = Path('/w/x/y/z')
newname.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
Path('/a/b/c/d').rename(newname)