Copy directory contents into a directory with python [duplicate]

I found this code working which is part of the standard library: from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree # copy subdirectory example from_directory = “/a/b/c” to_directory = “/x/y/z” copy_tree(from_directory, to_directory) Reference: Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/apiref.html#distutils.dir_util.copy_tree Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/apiref.html#distutils.dir_util.copy_tree