Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-02 Thread Fredrik Lundh
I wrote: WindowsError: [Errno 3] : 'O:/eb/mb/S/*.*' shutil.rmtree() expects a directory name, not a file pattern. if you leave out the *.* part at the end, it should do what you want. postscript: typically enough, I stumbled upon the same error message myself, a day later. looks like it's

Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:37:11 -0800, obeeker wrote: there is threee directories,one of these is used for the base directory,decided by the user, default is d0 [snip code] It doesn't work? Have you tried running it to see what it does? When you do, please post a description of what it does,

Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-01 Thread obeeker
thank you for your suggestion and apologize for my mistake. if i run it and answer the raw_input with Enter i get sth is wrong press Return i comment the try-except and run it and answer the raw_input with Enter and get message following: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-01 Thread obeeker
please don't read the prevous post ,please read this one: thank you for your suggestion and apologize for my mistake. if i run it and answer the raw_input with Enter i get sth is wrong press Return i comment the try-except and run it and answer the raw_input with Enter and get message

Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-01 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please don't read the prevous post ,please read this one: thank you for your suggestion and apologize for my mistake. if i run it and answer the raw_input with Enter i get sth is wrong press Return i comment the try-except and run it and answer the raw_input with

Re: why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-04-01 Thread obeeker
i am very sorry . the erroer was from my Portable Hard Disk because its disk sign has changed from o to h ,from p to i i'm very sorry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

why doesn't is work?a script to backup a directory

2006-03-31 Thread obeeker
there is threee directories,one of these is used for the base directory,decided by the user, default is d0 import shutil #the three directories d0='D:/Program Files/eb/mb/S' d1='O:/eb/mb/S' d2='P:/S/eb/mb/S' #to backup def update(base): l=[d0,d1,d2] l.remove(base) for