On Apr 4, 5:06 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, ecu_jon <hayesjd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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. > > The extra backslashes in the string literal are there to "escape" the > required backslashes. This is required because the backslash > character is used to introduce certain special characters in strings, > such as tabs and newlines. The actual string does not contain the > extra backslashes. This is documented in extensive detail in the > language > reference:http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals. > But you might want to start with the > tutorial:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#strings > > Example: > > > > >>> s = 'c:\\users\\jon\\backup' > >>> print s > c:\users\jon\backup > > Is c:\users\jon\backup a directory? The shutil.copyfile function will > only copy a file. There is a shutil.copytree that will copy an entire > directory tree. > > -- > regards, > kushal
well i changed a few minor things in the bigger problem, and c:\users \jon\backup as the source worked fine. now to test it on winxp, where the default has a space in the name. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
