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Old 06-16-2011
Help improve python sortfile by extension and size

Hi i had this python script to sort source dir by file extension and cp to individual extension destination dir. i would like to ask on how to add an option for size sorting somewhat like

# <script.py> -size <range 10k-20k>,<range 30k-40k>,..... source destination

Im a beginner and doing my homeworks for this one. Hope someone can add to the scripts.

Quote:
import os
import os.path
import shutil
import sys

source = sys.argv[1]
destination = sys.argv[2]

while not os.path.exists(source):
source = raw_input('Enter a valid source directory\n')
while not os.path.exists(destination):
destination = raw_input('Enter a valid destination directory\n')

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(source, topdown=False):
for file in files:
extension = os.path.splitext(file)[1][1:].upper()
destinationPath = os.path.join(destination,extension)

if not os.path.exists(destinationPath):
os.mkdir(destinationPath)
if os.path.exists(os.path.join(destinationPath,file)):
print 'WARNING: this file was not copied :' + os.path.join(root,file)
else:
shutil.copy2(os.path.join(root,file), destinationPath)
# 2  
Old 06-19-2011
Gidday Jao,

Any good reason for not using what's provided out of the box by the ls command?

Best, Loïc
# 3  
Old 06-19-2011
Java

Im planning to use it also on windows. Also i noticed when using shell script it is slow in this task and try the python i im noticed a noticeable speed i dont know if im correct so thats why i want to use the python for this task.

Also an extra knowledge gain for me in pythons script.

Thanks for the responce.
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