On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:13 PM, ecu_jon <hayesjd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ok changed the try/except to just a file copy and got this: > sourcepath is : [u'I:\\college\\spring11\\capstone-project\ > \facbac-009.py'] > destpath is : V:\week3 > destpath is : V:\week3\facbac-009.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "I:\college\spring11\capstone-project\folder.py", line 53, in > button1Click > backupfiles() > File "I:\college\spring11\capstone-project\folder.py", line 19, in > backupfiles > shutil.copy2(sourcepath, > os.path.join(destpath,os.path.basename(files))) > File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 127, in copy2 > copyfile(src, dst) > File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 67, in copyfile > if _samefile(src, dst): > File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 62, in _samefile > return (os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(src)) == > File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 471, in abspath > path = _getfullpathname(path) > TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found > > yes i see the list. > but shouldnt this "for files in sourcepath:" parse thru the list ... ?
That doesn't matter when your actual copy2() call still refers to `sourcepath` (the list): shutil.copy2(sourcepath, os.path.join(destpath,os.path.basename(files))) ^^^^^^^^^^ I presume you want `files` here rather than `sourcepath`. Incidentally, I think `sourcepath` is poorly named given that it's a list of paths, and `files` is also poorly named given that it's a single filepath. Cheers, Chris -- "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." – Phil Karlton http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list