Dec. 17, 2023, 4:46 p.m. | Sachin

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Copying or moving files or folders manually from one directory to another directory could be a real pain. This can be automated using a Python module called shutil.


Shutil module provides some high-level operations on files and collection of files like copying, moving, or removing the files.


In other words, the shutil module helps in automating the task of file copying or moving from one directory to another directory. It comes under the Python standard library so it doesn't …

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