From 5cdf9fd0ea27a169145df269c2d460ff52e452eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rasbt <raskberry@mail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:06:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fileops

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 os_shutil_fileops | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 os_shutil_fileops

diff --git a/os_shutil_fileops b/os_shutil_fileops
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+# sr 11/19/2013
+# common file operations in os and shutil modules
+
+import shutil
+import os
+ 
+# Getting files of particular type from directory
+files = [f for f in os.listdir(s_pdb_dir) if f.endswith(".txt")]
+  
+# Copy and move
+shutil.copyfile("/path/to/file", "/path/to/new/file") 
+shutil.copy("/path/to/file", "/path/to/directory")
+shutil.move("/path/to/file","/path/to/directory")
+   
+# Check if file or directory exists
+os.path.exists("file or directory")
+os.path.isfile("file")
+os.path.isdir("directory")
+    
+# Working directory and absolute path to files
+os.getcwd()
+os.path.abspath("file")