[Tutor] moving directories into directories

[Christopher Spears]

I'm trying to move a bunch of files and directories into another directory.  Unfortunately, I keep getting an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "checkDeviceType.py", line 46, in ?
    cdt.moveFiles(barcodeList)
  File "checkDeviceType.py", line 40, in moveFiles
    shutil.move(f,dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 190, in move
    copytree(src, dst, symlinks=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 111, in copytree
    os.mkdir(dst)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: './TAPE_ARCHIVES'

The problem seems to happen when I try to move a directory into another directory:

>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.move("test_dir","stuff")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 190, in move
    copytree(src, dst, symlinks=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 111, in copytree
    os.mkdir(dst)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'stuff'

Any idea how to pull this off?