On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:13:42 -0800, ecu_jon 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'] Note that it's a list. > shutil.copy2(sourcepath, > os.path.join(destpath,os.path.basename(files))) Note that you are calling copy2 with the first argument as a list. > TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Note that the error tells you exactly what is wrong. > yes i see the list. > but shouldnt this "for files in sourcepath:" parse thru the list ... ? Yes it does. So what? You don't use files, you use sourcepath each time. >>> source = ['a', 'bb', 'ccc'] >>> for x in source: ... print(len(source)) ... 3 3 3 -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
