Yes, I am sure about those things. I've tried shutil.move and got the same result. Forward slash? I'll give that a try and report back here if it works.
Thanks, Tom. Larry Bates wrote: > Are you sure the source directory exists and you > have rights to rename it? Because the rename works > for me. > > But you may want to look at shutil.move and/or > use forward slashes (they work under Windows) > > -Larry Bates > > > Tom wrote: > >>I'm having a problem using a path with spaces as a parameter to >>os.rename() in a program on WinXP. >> >>This works fine at the command line (where the folder "c:\aa bb" exists) >> >> >>>os.rename( "c\aa bb", "c:\cc dd" ); >>> >> >>But, I can't get it to work in my program, eg. >> >>print SrcDir >>print NewDir >>os.rename( SrcDir, NewDir ); >> >>when I run this I get something like this: >> >>"e:\\music\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8" >>"e:\\music.ogg\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8" >> >>Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "E:\Music\MoveMusic.py", line 64, in ? >> main(); >>... >> File "E:\Music\MoveMusic.py", line 49, in Visit >> os.mkdir( NewDir ); >>OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '"e:\\music.ogg\\Joni >>Mitchell\\ogg-8"' >> >>I've tried different combinations of single backslash vs. double >>backslash, and quoted vs. non-quoted, but it always fails. >> >>The problem is not specific to os.rename. If I instead use mkdir( >>SrcDir ) I get the same problem. >> >>Thanks, >>Tom. >> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
