i am writing a basic backup program for my school. so they wanted the
possibility to be able to set source/destination from a config file.
my source/destination was fine before, i would build it up with
functions, like 1 that got the user-name, and put it all together with
os.path.join. but if they set a source in the config file to something
like c:\users\jon\backup python tries to read from c:\\users\\jon\
\backup, and throws out a read permission (because it doesn't
exist ...). i am not sure what to do at this point. i have look at the
docs for string, and os.____ . i cant os.path.join anything if they
give me an absolute path. here is a bit of the code
import os,string,fnmatch,shutil,time,getpass,md5,ConfigParser
from datetime import *
from os.path import join, getsize
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read("config.ini")
source = config.get("myvars", "source")
destination = config.get("myvars", "destination")
helptext = config.get("myvars", "helptext")
def weekChoice():
dateNum = datetime.now().day
if dateNum <=7:
week = 1
elif (dateNum >= 8) and (dateNum <= 14):
week = 2
elif (dateNum >= 15) and (dateNum <= 21):
week = 3
elif dateNum > 22:
week = 4
else:
print "error"
return week
def destination1():
global destination
username = getpass.getuser()
week = weekChoice()
weekstr = "week"+str(week)
destination1 = os.path.join("//mothera","jon","week1") #where //
mothera is a samba server on the network
return destination1
print "source :",source
destination = destination1()
shutil.copy2(source, destination)
here is some of config.ini
[myvars]
source:c:\users\jon\backup
destination:
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