How to copy folder structure under another directory?

Question

I have some questions related to copying a folder structure. In fact, I need to do a conversion of pdf files to text files. Hence I have such a folder structure for the place wh

Answer 1

For me the following works fine:

• Iterate over existing folders

• Build the structure for the new folders based on existing ones

• Check, if the new folder structure does not exist
• If so, create new folder without files

Code:

import os

inputpath = 'D:/f/'
outputpath = 'D:/g/'

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(inputpath):
    structure = os.path.join(outputpath, dirpath[len(inputpath):])
    if not os.path.isdir(structure):
        os.mkdir(structure)
    else:
        print("Folder does already exits!")

Documentation:

• os.walk
• os.mkdir
• os.path.isdir