Yes, that's exactly what was the case... But see my other post, that straightens things up...
Thanks! antoine John Henry wrote: > Okay, it's always good that strange things are repeatable and happens > with simple scripts. > > Are you saying "a" is a folder? So, the failure is only with copying > folder? Not individual file? > > > > Antoine De Groote wrote: >> Yes it's strange, I never had the problem before, either. It seems now >> to be only the case for folders. A very simple >> >> shutil.copy('a', 'b') >> >> already fails with the error message. >> >> I reinstalled Python, but that didn't change anything... >> >> Regards, >> antoine >> >> John Henry wrote: >>> I use the copy function a lot and never have problem. I suggest that >>> you write a no brainer standalone test code and if it still fails >>> there, then you have a problem with your installation. >>> >>> Antoine De Groote wrote: >>>> Google tells quite some things about it, but none of them are satisfactory. >>>> >>>> I'm on Windows, and shutil operations (e.g. move, copy) throw [Errno 13] >>>> Permission denied all the time, for the source files. It seems that this >>>> is the case for all my files. But what I don't understand is that >>>> yesterday it still worked. I didn't change anything on my system though >>>> (at least not that I am aware of). I restarted the computer several >>>> times to see if that helped, but it didn't. Also I can't find a process >>>> that would be using the files... >>>> >>>> Has anybody experienced this problem before, or have a solution? >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> antoine >>>> >>>> Here's the code that throws the errors >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> for l in files: >>>> from_file = os.path.join(dir, l) >>>> to_file = from_file.replace(tree_top, backup_dir) >>>> try: >>>> if not os.path.exists(to_file): >>>> log('Copying new %s' % from_file) >>>> counter_new += 1 >>>> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file) >>>> elif int(os.path.getmtime(from_file)) > >>>> int(os.path.getmtime(to_file)): >>>> log('Copying modified %s' % from_file) >>>> counter_mod += 1 >>>> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file) >>>> elif os.path.getsize(from_file) > >>>> os.path.getsize(to_file): >>>> log('Sizes differ, but not rest: Copying %s' % >>>> from_file) >>>> counter_special += 1 >>>> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file) >>>> elif os.path.getsize(from_file) < >>>> os.path.getsize(to_file): >>>> log('Orig file smaller than backup file: Copying >>>> %s' % from_file) >>>> counter_special += 1 >>>> shutil.copy2(to_file, backup_dir+'DIFF_SIZE') >>>> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file) >>>> else: >>>> #log('not treated: %s' % l) >>>> pass >>>> >>>> except (OSError, IOError), e: >>>> not_accessible += 1 >>>> print e >>>> [...] > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list