Hi,
On 01/13/2010 02:15 PM, Smrutilekha Swain wrote:
i am doing a programme in which i have to copy a file from one directory to
another....i have used "shutil.copy(src,dest)"...but it is showing error
i.e., permission denied...as file is in 'w' mode...so plzzzzzz tell me what
to do.........
Are you sure the permission denied is because the file is opened in 'w' mode ?
>>> l = open('foo', 'w')
>>> shutil.copy('bar', 'foo')
>>>
It is quite likely that you do not have sufficient privileges to write to the
target directory. For instance ...
>>> shutil.copy('foo', '/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 88, in copy
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 53, in copyfile
fdst = open(dst, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/foo'
>>>
Make sure that normal copy (using the cp command on the shell/command prompt)
works before trying out shutil.copy. If that works but shutil.copy() doesn't,
could you place the entire traceback here ?
cheers,
- steve
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