shutil

High-level file operations: copy, move, delete trees, archives and disk usage.

Beginner

import shutil
shutil.copy2("a.txt", "backup/")
shutil.rmtree("build")
shutil.make_archive("project", "zip", "src")
shutil.disk_usage("/")

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