What is the usage of the shutil module in Python?

The shutil module is a module in the Python standard library used for file and directory operations. It provides advanced functions for file operations such as copying, moving, renaming, deleting files and directories easily.

Some commonly used functions in the shutil module include:

1. Copy the file from source to destination, where the destination can be either a file name or a directory path.
2. copy2(src, dst): Copies a file while preserving as much of the file’s metadata (such as permissions, timestamps, etc.) as possible.
3. Move the file or directory located at src to the destination path specified by dst, also used for renaming files or directories.
4. Recursively remove a directory and all its contents, including files and subdirectories.
5. shutil.make_archive(base_name, format, root_dir): Creates an archive file that compresses the files and subdirectories in the root_dir directory.
6. Unpack the archive file into the extract_dir directory using shutil.unpack_archive(filename, extract_dir).
7. shutil.disk_usage(path): Get the disk usage of the specified path, returning a tuple that includes the total disk size, used size, and available size.
8. shutil.copytree(src, dst) recursively copies an entire directory tree, copying the src directory and all of its subdirectories and files to the dst path.

These are just a few common functions provided by the shutil module, which also offers a variety of other useful functions that can be used based on specific needs.