On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote:
On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, Dave Angel<da...@ieee.org> wrote:
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote:
ok now i get permission denied....
import os
homedir =s.path.expanduser('~')
try:
from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
homedir =hell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA, 0, 0)
except ImportError:
homedir =s.path.expanduser("~")
print homedir
print os.listdir(homedir+"\\backup\\")
#homedir.replace("\\\\" , "\\")
#print homedir
backupdir1 =s.path.join(homedir, "backup")
backupdir2 =s.path.join(homedir, "backup2")
shutil.copy (backupdir1, backupdir2)
You forgot to include the error traceback.
So, is homedir/backup a file, or is it a directory? If you're trying to
copy whole directories, you might want to look at copytree instead.
If you're not sure, you could use
os.isfile()
to check. If that's false, then shutil.copy() can't work. Similarly,
if the destination is a readonly file, you'd get some error.
DaveA
today's date is : 30
week chosen is : 4
C:\Users\jon
['test1.txt', 'test2.txt']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\spring 11\capstone-project\date.py", line 45, in<module>
shutil.copy (backupdir1, backupdir2)
File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 116, in copy
copyfile(src, dst)
File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\jon\\backup'
Good job, reading the first part of my message. Now, why are you saying
in other messages that it can't write to your home directory? The error
doesn't refer to your home directory, it refers to a file
C:\Users\jon\backup which it can't read.
But as your program demonstrates, that's a directory not a file. It's
fine to use shutil.copy, but then you have to give it a source file to copy.
For example, C:\Users\jon\backup\test1.txt
DaveA
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