[910] Copy a file to another directory with a new name in Python

To copy a file to another directory with a new name in Python, you can use the shutil library. Here's how you can do it:

import shutil
 
# Specify the source file path
source_file = 'path/to/source/file.txt'
 
# Specify the destination directory
destination_directory = 'path/to/destination/'
 
# Specify the new name for the copied file
new_file_name = 'new_file.txt'
 
# Create the full destination path
destination_path = destination_directory + new_file_name
 
# Copy the file to the destination directory with the new name
shutil.copy2(source_file, destination_path)

In this code, replace 'path/to/source/file.txt' with the path to the source file you want to copy, 'path/to/destination/' with the path to the destination directory, and 'new_file.txt' with the new name you want to assign to the copied file.

The shutil.copy2 function is used to copy the file to the destination with its new name. It preserves file metadata during the copy. If you don't need to preserve metadata, you can use shutil.copy instead:

shutil.copy(source_file, destination_path)

This code will copy the file from the source path to the destination directory with the specified new name. If the destination directory doesn't exist, it will be created.