import shutil

# Copy src to dst. (cp src dst)

shutil.copy(src, dst)

# Copy files, but preserve metadata (cp -p src dst)

shutil.copy2(src, dst)

# Copy directory tree (cp -R src dst)

shutil.copytree(src, dst)

# Move src to dst (mv src dst)

shutil.move(src, dst)

shutil.copytree(src, dst, symlinks=True)

def ignore_pyc_files(dirname, filenames):

return [name in filenames if name.endswith('.pyc')]

shutil.copytree(src, dst, ignore=ignore_pyc_files)

shutil.copytree(src, dst, ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns('*~', '*.pyc'))

try:

shutil.copytree(src, dst)

except shutil.Error as e:

for src, dst, msg in e.args[0]:

# src is source name

# dst is destination name

# msg is error message from exception

print(dst, src, msg)