How do I copy files without case sensitive?

[mcesmcsc]

here is my code for copying files from my downloads folder. It only copies one and not all. I'd like it to copy all the readme files so when it looks for the files it's not case sensitive:

from pathlib import Path
import os
import shutil

os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__)))

def activities():
    homepath = Path('.')
    dir_src = ('~/Downloads')
    for filename in os.listdir(dir_src):
        if filename.startswith('Readme'):
        shutil.copyfile( dir_src + filename, homepath)
    activities()

[ichabod801]

if filename.lower().startswith('readme'):

[mcesmcsc]

Thank you, I'll give it a try

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ok now its not copying any of the 'readme' files to the destination(?

from pathlib import Path
import os
import shutil
os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__)))
def activities():
    homepath = Path('.')
    dir_src = ('~/Downloads')
    for filename in os.listdir(dir_src):
        if filename.lower().startswith('readme'):
           shutil.copyfile(dir_src + filename, homepath)
    activities()

anything wrong with my code?

[ichabod801]

I think you need the full path with the file name as the second argument to copyfile.

[mcesmcsc]

it's homework, so they are going to run it from their computer, so putting my path in there wouldn't work, would it? I thought using path = ('~/Downloads') would be a global(?) type path?

[ichabod801]

You'd have to talk to your professor on that one.

[mcesmcsc]

OK i've updated my code to get the users 'homepath' and joined it with the 'source' folder. set my 'destination' folder but stil cant copy the files

from pathlib import Path
import os
import shutil
def activities():
    homepath = os.path.expanduser('~')
    source = os.path.join(homepath, 'Downloads')
    destination = Path('.')
    src_files = os.listdir(source)
    for filename in src_files:
        if filename.startswith('readme'):
            continue
        src = os.path.join(source, filename)
        dst = os.path.join(destination, filename)
        shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
    activities()

[ichabod801]

Aren't you trying to copy the readme files? The continue statement on line 11 skips to the top of the for loop, so it's copying everything but the readme files.

[mcesmcsc]

Im trying to find a 'filename' and use case insensitive using fnmatch, glob or filename...ive seen re IGNORECASE but dont know how to use it properly (yet)