Are you sure the source directory exists and you have rights to rename it? Because the rename works for me.
But you may want to look at shutil.move and/or use forward slashes (they work under Windows) -Larry Bates Tom wrote: > I'm having a problem using a path with spaces as a parameter to > os.rename() in a program on WinXP. > > This works fine at the command line (where the folder "c:\aa bb" exists) > >> os.rename( "c\aa bb", "c:\cc dd" ); >> > > But, I can't get it to work in my program, eg. > > print SrcDir > print NewDir > os.rename( SrcDir, NewDir ); > > when I run this I get something like this: > > "e:\\music\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8" > "e:\\music.ogg\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8" > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "E:\Music\MoveMusic.py", line 64, in ? > main(); > ... > File "E:\Music\MoveMusic.py", line 49, in Visit > os.mkdir( NewDir ); > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '"e:\\music.ogg\\Joni > Mitchell\\ogg-8"' > > I've tried different combinations of single backslash vs. double > backslash, and quoted vs. non-quoted, but it always fails. > > The problem is not specific to os.rename. If I instead use mkdir( > SrcDir ) I get the same problem. > > Thanks, > Tom. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
