Archive a bunch of files using os module : Pythoneo : os

Suppose you have many text files. Your task is to archive those with a maximum of 500 characters. Let’s write code that will create a new directory. I use os module for that.

Archive files

import os

archive = 'new_dir'
os.path.exists(archive) or os.makedirs(archive)
dir_archive = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), archive)

for file in os.listdir(path='.'):
    if os.path.isdir(file):
        continue
    r_file = open(file, 'rb').read().splitlines()
    if len(r_file) <= 500:
        os.rename(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), file), os.path.join(dir_archive, file))

The script is creating a new directory ‘new_dir’ and move files from current directory there. I used the size criteria here. You can modify the script and move files based on the name of the date instead.