Creating a Subdirectory
00:00
Time for a test run. Now what I said before is that I don’t necessarily want to test directly on the practice_files/
directory, but instead I’m going to use copy_dir
for that.
00:10
So since I might change these out a couple of times while I’m testing, I’m going to instead of defining the path to practice_files/
here, I’m going to put a constant here. I’m just going to say, I’m going to call this DIRECTORY
.
00:28 And that’s a variable that I’m going to define up here.
00:33
I’m going to say DIRECTORY
is later it’s probably going to be
00:40
"practice_dir"
. That’s what I eventually want to use. But now I’m going to comment that out because for now I’m going to work with "copy_dir"
. So this is the directory that I’m going to use for now, and it’s going to be easy for me to change between these two by just commenting, uncommenting, or I could replace the string in here that points to the actual directory that I want to use. For now, it’s going to be copy_dir/
here at the end, which means that whenever I’m going to run this script, it’s going to, yeah, use this copy_dir/
, which is my testing directory, so to say. Cool.
01:16
And now I want to test what I wrote so far and figure out whether running this code, the script as I have it so far, whether this is going to create a subdirectory called images/
inside of copy_dir/
. Now, in order to be able to run this, I need to first save the file.
01:35 So I’m going to press Command + S to save it,
01:40
and I’ll put it into this python-basics-exercises/
directory and call it move.py
.
01:50
Okay, so I got it saved, and now I should be able to run this code and see the images/
directory pop up. To run it, you can go to the menu, click on Run, and then Run Module, or you can press the shortcut F5.
02:07
I’ll be using F5 to run the code. So after I saved it, I can press F5. And you can see here over in the console that it says RESTART
, and then the script was run.
02:19
So let’s head over to the graphical user interface, and inside of copy_dir
, I should now have a new folder, an empty folder called images/
.
02:30
So this worked out just as expected, and my practice_files/
folder is still in its original state. Cool.
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