On Apr 4, 12:17 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > 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 Traceback (most recent call last): File "I:\college\spring11\capstone-project\testing1.py", line 39, in <module> shutil.copy2(source1, destination) File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 127, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\users\\jon\\backup'
i have permission to c:\users\jon\* but c:\\* obviously does not exist. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list