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import os


    

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
f=open(fname,'w')
os.remove(fname)


    

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os.remove('non-existing-file.txt')


    

    




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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-9daae82f3147> in <module>()
----> 1 os.remove('non-existing-file.txt')

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'non-existing-file.txt'

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
f=open(fname,'w')

os.replace(fname,'foo-bar-new.txt')


    

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
f=open(fname,'w')

os.replace('non-existing-file.txt','any-other-name.txt')


    

    




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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-5101b4b27637> in <module>()
      2 f=open(fname,'w')
      3 
----> 4 os.replace('non-existing-file.txt','any-other-name.txt')

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'non-existing-file.txt' -> 'any-other-name.txt'

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
fname2 = 'bar-baz.txt'

f=open(fname,'w')
f2 = open(fname2,'w')

os.replace(fname,fname2)


    

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
fname2 = 'foo/'

f=open(fname,'w')
f2 = open(fname2,'w')

os.replace(fname,dst_dir_fd=fname2)


    

    




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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-19-cea2e01efedf> in <module>()
      4 f=open(fname,'w')
      5 
----> 6 os.replace(fname,dst_dir_fd=fname2)

TypeError: Required argument 'dst' (pos 2) not found

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import shutil


    

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fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
fname2 = 'bar-baz.txt'

f=open(fname,'w')

shutil.copy(fname,fname2)


    

    
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'bar-baz.txt'

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# target path is a dir
fname = 'foo-bar.txt'
fname2 = 'foo/foo-bar.txt'

with open(fname,'w') as f:
    f.write('source-text')
    
# f=open(fname2,'w')

shutil.copy(fname,'foo/')


    

    
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'foo/foo-bar.txt'

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