Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 12 April 2010 20:12, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 April 2010 18:28, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
However, it fails like this:
$ ./moveUp.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./moveUp.py", line 8, in <module>
os.rename(f, currentDir)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, tuple found
os.rename needs the oldname and the new name of the file. os.walk
returns a tuple with 3 values and it errors out.
I see, thanks. So I was sending it four values apparently. I did not
understand the error message.
No, you're sending it two values: a tuple, and a string. It wants two
strings. Thus the error. If you had sent it four values, you'd have
gotten a different error.
<snip>
Actually, I will add a check that cwd !=HOME || $HOME/.bin as those
are the only likely places it might run by accident. Or maybe I'll
wrap it in Qt and add a confirm button.
os.walk returns you a tuple with the following values:
(the root folder, the folders in the root, the files in the root folder).
You can use tuple unpacking to split each one in separate values for
your loop. Like:
for root, folder, files in os.walk('your path):
#do stuff
I did see that while googling, but did not understand it. Nice!
Judging from your next message, you still don't understand it.
It might be wise to only have this module print what it would do
instead of doing the actual move/rename so you can work out the bugs
first before it destroys your data.
I am testing on fake data, naturally.
Is your entire file system fake? Perhaps you're running in a VM, and
don't mind trashing it.
While debugging, you're much better off using prints than really moving
files around. You might be amazed how much damage a couple of minor
bugs could cause.
DaveA
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