Trying to use / on Path object Python

Question

The program takes an optional command line argument (which is meant to be a directory path)

I am using python pathlib and shutil to move files. Here's the code:

from pathlib import Path
path = Path(sys.argv[1])
shutil.move(path / file, path / e.upper())

Where e is just a string representing certain file extension;

Input:

 python3 app.py /home/user/Desktop

This code generates an error:

'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'rstrip'

The / operator works fine if I don't specify the second argument in the command line (and use Path.cwd() as the path instead)

• Hai Vu: Please show the full stack trace, what you have there is not enough
• ForceBru: The code you posted will generate NameErrors, because shutil, file and e are not defined. Please post a minimal reproducible example.
• MisterMiyagi: Note that shutil.move is not documented to take path-like arguments. Also, please post the entire traceback, not just the error message.
• Amir Charkhi: I simply converted the path object to string and it worked.

Answer 1

Use the rename function of Path to move a file, if you're using the pathlib module.

ie.

(path / file).rename(path / e.upper())

Otherwise, if you wish to use the shutil module, then you must convert your paths to strings before passing them to shutil.move()

ie.

shutil.move(str(path / file), str(path / e.upper()))

Answer 2

Considering file and folders path as string solved this error

shutil.move(str(source_path),str(destination_path))