Question

I’m looking for a way to copy an image file from a given source with Python.

I did read several stuff on the internet but what I found was always working just on one specific platform. I would like to know if there exists a functionality in Python that would make it possible to easily copy an image file ?

My target would be to have this in the end :

1. folder/image_title.jpg
2. copying the image
3. new_folder/new_image_title.jpg

with the *new_image_title* being the date of the day.

My code looks like this at the moment :

import shutil
import datetime

shutil.copy('folder/alpha.jpg', 'new_folder/'datetime.date()'.jpg')

But I get an error: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

I’m done with it, thanks to you 🙂
So here is my final version, in case it could help other people :

import shutil
import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()
date=str(now.year)+'-'+str(now.month)+'-'+str(now.day)

new_folder = "source/new_folder"
dest = new_folder + '/' + str(date) + '.jpg'
shutil.copy('source/alpha.jpg', dest)

One last thing : at the moment, the program just runs without saying anything. So does anyone knows how to print a message saying whether or not the copying did work ?