Daniel Bickett wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing an application in my pastime that moves files around to achieve various ends -- the specifics aren't particularly important. The shutil module was chosen as the means simply because that is what google and chm searches returned most often.
My problem has to do with shutil.move actually putting the files where I ask it to. Citing code wouldn't serve any purpose, because I am using the function in the most straight forward manner, ex:
shutil.move( "C:\omg.txt" , "C:\folder\subdir" )
In my script, rather than a file being moved to the desired location, it is, rather, moved to the current working directory (in this case, my desktop -- without any exceptions, mind you). As it happens, the desired locations are system folders (running windows xp, the folders are as follows: C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32). To see if this factor was causing the problem, I tried it using the interpreter, and found it to be flawless.
My question boils down to this: What factors could possibly cause shutil.move to fail to move a file to the desired location, choosing instead to place it in the cwd (without raising any exceptions)?
Thank you for your time,
Daniel Bickett
P.S. I know I said I didn't need to post code, but I will anyway. You never know :)
http://rafb.net/paste/results/FcwlEw86.html
AS several people have already suggested, you must have an error in the calling code, which wasn't included in the pasted snippet.
Also, "data" appears to be a global variable, which leaves us lacking some useful information.
Does the debugMess() call show the full destination path for the file?
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