Tom wrote: > Drive E: is removable, so I was careful to verify that that was a factor > in the problem. > > Yes, I can do the same renaming, with the same drive, at the command line. > > I think I put the emphasis in the wrong place in my question. This > isn't really about os.rename(). It is about putting a filename with > spaces into a string object and then using it as a parameter to an 'os' > command.
That can't really be all there is to the issue, since other people can successfully use spaces in filenames passed to 'os' commands including os.rename. There must be something special with _your_ situation. What else could it be except the file system? Oh... wait, I see now. Look closely at your error message: 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"' Where do you think those double quotation marks came from? What happens if you try the following instead of using the variables you were trying to use? os.rename("e:\\music\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8", "e:\\music.ogg\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8") Now try it with this and observe how you get (I predict) the same error message as you originally got, and note what your mistake was: os.rename('"e:\\music\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8"', '"e:\\music.ogg\\Joni Mitchell\\ogg-8"') (To avoid confusion, cut and paste the above lines rather than attempting to retype them.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list