Copy a file from one location to another in Python

You have to give a full name of the destination file, not just a folder name.

You can get the file name using os.path.basename(path) and then build the destination path using os.path.join(path, *paths)

for item in fileList:
    filename = os.path.basename(item[0])
    copyfile(item[0], os.path.join("/Users/username/Desktop/testPhotos", filename))

You could just use the shutil.copy() command:

e.g.

    import shutil

    for item in fileList:
        shutil.copy(item[0], "/Users/username/Desktop/testPhotos")

[From the Python 3.6.1 documentation. I tried this and it works.]

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