Shuffle and Move Files in Directory

This function first copies all files from the source directory to the destination directory, then lists all files in the destination directory, shuffles them randomly. After that, the function renames and moves each file to the destination directory to achieve random sorting of files.

Technology Stack : shutil, os, random

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import shutil
import random

def shuffle_files(src, dst):
    """
    Shuffle the files in the source directory and move them to the destination directory.
    """
    shutil.copytree(src, dst)
    files = [f for f in os.listdir(dst) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dst, f))]
    random.shuffle(files)
    for file in files:
        shutil.move(os.path.join(dst, file), os.path.join(dst, f"{random.randint(0, 10000)}.tmp"))
        os.rename(os.path.join(dst, f"{random.randint(0, 10000)}.tmp"), os.path.join(dst, file))