Question

I am tring to call the cmd command “move” from python.

  cmd1 = ["move", spath , npath]
  startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
  startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
  p = subprocess.Popen(cmd1, startupinfo=startupinfo)

While the comammand works in the cmd. I can move files. With this python code i get:

WindowsError: [Error 2] The system
cannot find the file specified

Spath and npath, are absolute paths to folders, so being in another directory should not matter.

[edit]
Responding to Tim’s answear: The how do i move a folder?

Answer 1

move is built-in into the cmd shell, so it’s not a file command that you can call this way.

You could use shutil.move(), but this “forgets” all alternate data stream, ACLs etc.