File permissions script vs shell

[jdlists at gmail.com]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> jdlists at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm running python on windows and have a program that watches a
> > directory and acts on files as they come into the directory.  After
> > processing is complete, i delete the file, or in this case attempt
> > to....
> >
> > In the script version I repeatedly get OSError exceptions stating
> > permission denied when trying to delete or rename
> >
> > My exception print out...
> > Files system said no: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> > u'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'
> >
> > But i can go into the python shell and execute...
> >
> > fileString = 'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'
> > import os
> > os.unlink(fileString)
> >
> > and the file deletes fine
> >
> > Any ideas?  This is on my development windows xp box and i'm the only
> > user.
>
> did you close the file correctly after processing it ?
>
> >>> f = open("somefile.txt", "w")
> >>> import os
> >>> os.remove("somefile.txt")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt'
> >>> f.close()
> >>> f = open("somefile.txt", "r")
> >>> os.remove("somefile.txt")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt'
> >>> f.close()
> >>> os.remove("somefile.txt")
> >>>
>
> </F>

That was correct...i started to see it just after posting, the open
file was hidden behind the 4Suite library via the FromUri method.
Reading the xml file as a string and passing it to fromString instead
and closing the file myself solved this.

Jeff