Try this:

import shutilimport os    source_dir = '/path/to/source_folder'target_dir = '/path/to/dest_folder'    file_names = os.listdir(source_dir)    for file_name in file_names:    shutil.move(os.path.join(source_dir, file_name), target_dir)

suprised this doesn't have an answer using pathilib which was introduced in python 3.4+

additionally, shutil updated in python 3.6 to accept a pathlib object more details in this PEP-0519

Pathlib

from pathlib import Pathsrc_path = '\tmp\files_to_move'for each_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'): # grabs all files    trg_path = each_file.parent.parent # gets the parent of the folder     each_file.rename(trg_path.joinpath(each_file.name)) # moves to parent folder.

Pathlib & shutil to copy files.

from pathlib import Pathimport shutilsrc_path = '\tmp\files_to_move'trg_path = '\tmp'for src_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'):    shutil.copy(src_file, trg_path)

Please, take a look at implementation of the copytree function which:

• List directory files with:

  names = os.listdir(src)

• Copy files with:

for name in names:  srcname = os.path.join(src, name)  dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)  copy2(srcname, dstname)

Getting dstname is not necessary, because if destination parameter specifies a directory, the file will be copied into dst using the base filename from srcname.

Replace copy2 by move.