shutil.copytree without files

Question

I\'m trying use shutil.copytree:

shutil.copytree(SOURCE_DIR, TARGET_DIR, ignore=None)

This copy also files in folder. I need copy only folders

Answer 1

If you want ignore pattern functionality with os.walk(), then:

ignorePatterns=[".git"]
def create_empty_dirtree(src, dest, onerror=None):
    src = os.path.abspath(src)
    src_prefix = len(src) + len(os.path.sep)
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(src, onerror=onerror):
        for pattern in ignorePatterns:
            if pattern in root:
                break
        else:
            #If the above break didn't work, this part will be executed
            for dirname in dirs:
                for pattern in ignorePatterns:
                    if pattern in dirname:
                        break
                else:
                    #If the above break didn't work, this part will be executed
                    dirpath = os.path.join(dest, root[src_prefix:], dirname)
                    try:
                        os.makedirs(dirpath,exist_ok=True)
                    except OSError as e:
                        if onerror is not None:
                            onerror(e)
                continue #If the above else didn't executed, this will be reached

        continue #If the above else didn't executed, this will be reached

This will ignore .git directory.

Note: This requires Python >=3.2 as I used the exist_ok option with makedirs which isn't available on older versions.