I have several image/files on my computer. All of which start like this 1214455.jpeg
Each image is either a cat or a dog. The digits is a serial number that can be found in the database.
I want to separate images for cat and dog, and place them into two separate folders.
Every image has a name, which is the same serial number.
I want to be able to use a tuple of serial number / names as string to find the names of cats and dog. Then separate them.

source_dir = “C: file1”

destination_dir = (
“C: cats”
)

destination_dir = (
“C: dogs”
)

file_names = os.listdir(source_dir)

files = os.listdir(source_dir)

output=(“123344”, “345566”, “8888887”)

for file_name_i in files:
# for file_name_i in os.listdir(current_dir): # to search in sub folders
# if the file starts with a number as string in the list, place in cancer folder if not place in health
if os.path.join(source_dir, file_name_i).startswith(output):

    shutil.move(os.path.join(source_dir, file_name_i), destination_dir, "cats")

else:
    shutil.move(os.path.join(source_dir, file_name_i), destination_dir, "dogs")

This code only remove every image. It is unable separate the animals.