On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:30 PM, ecu_jon <hayesjd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 ...).
Please give the exact error message and full exception traceback that you're getting. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
