monty.shutil module
Copying and zipping utilities. Works on directories mostly.
monty.shutil.compress_dir(path, compression=’gz’)
Recursively compresses all files in a directory. Note that this compresses all files singly, i.e., it does not create a tar archive. For that, just use Python tarfile class.
- Parameters
- path (str) – Path to parent directory.
- compression (str) – A compression mode. Valid options are “gz” or “bz2”. Defaults to gz.
monty.shutil.compress_file(filepath, compression=’gz’)
Compresses a file with the correct extension. Functions like standard Unix command line gzip and bzip2 in the sense that the original uncompressed files are not retained.
- Parameters
- filepath (str) – Path to file.
- compression (str) – A compression mode. Valid options are “gz” or “bz2”. Defaults to “gz”.
monty.shutil.copy_r(src, dst)
Implements a recursive copy function similar to Unix’s “cp -r” command. Surprisingly, python does not have a real equivalent. shutil.copytree only works if the destination directory is not present.
- Parameters
- src (str) – Source folder to copy.
- dst (str) – Destination folder.
monty.shutil.decompress_dir(path)
Recursively decompresses all files in a directory.
- Parameters path (str) – Path to parent directory.
monty.shutil.decompress_file(filepath)
Decompresses a file with the correct extension. Automatically detects gz, bz2 or z extension.
- Parameters filepath (str) – Path to file.
- Returns The decompressed file path.
- Return type str
monty.shutil.gzip_dir(path, compresslevel=6)
Gzips all files in a directory. Note that this is different from shutil.make_archive, which creates a tar archive. The aim of this method is to create gzipped files that can still be read using common Unix-style commands like zless or zcat.
- Parameters
- path (str) – Path to directory.
- compresslevel (int) – Level of compression, 1-9. 9 is default for GzipFile, 6 is default for gzip.
monty.shutil.remove(path, follow_symlink=False)
Implements a remove function that will delete files, folder trees and symlink trees.
1.) Remove a file 2.) Remove a symlink and follow into with a recursive rm if follow_symlink 3.) Remove directory with rmtree
- Parameters
- path (str) – path to remove
- follow_symlink (bool) – follow symlinks and removes whatever is in them