Well.. Thx for the answers. The only way I had to make it work was to use a time.sleep(10) after the shutil.copyfile(). Since this is a night-run script, I can waste 10 seconds, but it still knocks me out "why" it happens...
Cheers! Hugo Ferreira On 30 Jan 2007 18:06:15 +0000 (GMT), Matthew Woodcraft < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hugo Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem. I'm using calling shutil.copyfile() followed by > open(). The thing is that most of the times open() is called before > the actual file is copied. I don't have this problem when doing a > step-by-step debug, since I give enough time for the OS to copy the > file, but at run-time, it throws an exception. > > Is there anyway to force a sync copy of the file (make python wait for > the completion)? shutil.copyfile() closes both files before it returns, so I suspect this is an OS-level bug. The most likely culprits are buggy network filesystems and buggy on-access virus scanners. -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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