Hari Sekhon wrote: > Hi, > I've written a script to run on windows to extract all zips under a > given directory path to another directory path as such: > > python extractzips.py <fetch all zips under this dir> <put all extracted > files under this dir> > > The purpose of this script is to retrieve backup files which are > individually zipped under a backup directory tree on a backup server. > > This scripts works nicely and has input validation etc, exiting > gracefully and telling you if you gave a non existent start or target > path... > > When running the script as follows > > python extractzips.py \\backupserver\backupshare\machine\folder d:\unziphere > > the script works perfectly, but if I do > > python extractzips.py \\backupserver\backupshare\machine\folder > \\anetworkmachine\share\folder > > then it unzips a lot of files, recreating the directory tree as it goes > but eventually fails with the traceback: > > File "extractzips.py", line 41, in zipextract > outfile.write(zip.read(x)) > IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument > > > But I'm sure the code is correct and the argument is passed properly, > otherwise a hundred files before it wouldn't have extracted successfully > using this exact same piece of code (it loops over it). It always fails > on this same file every time. When I extract the same tree to my local > drive it works fine without error. > > I have no idea why pushing to a network share causes an IO Error, > shouldn't it be the same as extracting locally from our perspective?
It looks like http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;899149 is the answer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
