> OP stated requirements were to move all the files into a single > folder. Copytree will preserve the directory structure from the source > side of the copy operation.
well, it would be "copying [not moving] files through Python", but if the desire is to flatten the tree into a single directory, that's also easy enough: import os, shutil source_dir = '/home/username/source/' dest_dir = '/home/username/dest/' for path, dirs, files in os.walk(source_dir): for fname in files: shutil.copy(os.path.join(path, fname), dest_dir) The above doesn't do any sort of collision-testing, so if more than one file in source_dir has the same name, the last one to be copied wins, and the first one gets obliterated. Caveat Coder. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list