Python | Sort and store files with same extension

Have you ever wanted to find any particular file in a folder, but then completely freak out when you find that folder to be a hell of a mess? Well, Python is a rescue here.
Using Python OS-module and shutil module, we can organize the files with same extensions and store in separate folders.

Look at the image shown below –

This folder is fully unorganized. If you are told to find a particular file in this folder (or maybe an even larger folder with thousands of files), you will be stuck and become completely dumbstruck. It might be very tough (even impossible) to find a file from this ocean of mess. This problem can be solved using Python with a few lines of code. Let’s see how can we do this.

Below is the Python implementation –

import os
import shutil

# Write the name of the directory here,
# that needs to get sorted
path = '/path/to/directory'


# This will create a properly organized
# list with all the filename that is
# there in the directory
list_ = os.listdir(path)

# This will go through each and every file
for file_ in list_:
    name, ext = os.path.splitext(file_)

    # This is going to store the extension type
    ext = ext[1:]

    # This forces the next iteration,
    # if it is the directory
    if ext == '':
        continue

    # This will move the file to the directory
    # where the name 'ext' already exists
    if os.path.exists(path+'/'+ext):
       shutil.move(path+'/'+file_, path+'/'+ext+'/'+file_)

    # This will create a new directory,
    # if the directory does not already exist
    else:
        os.makedirs(path+'/'+ext)
        shutil.move(path+'/'+file_, path+'/'+ext+'/'+file_)

Output: