homedir, file copy

[ecu_jon]

On Jan 30, 7:19 pm, Dave Angel <da... at ieee.org> wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, ecu_jon wrote:
>
> > ok now i get permission denied....
>
> > import os
> > homedir = os.path.expanduser('~')
> > try:
> >      from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
> >      homedir = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA, 0, 0)
>
> > except ImportError:
> >      homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")
> > print homedir
> > print os.listdir(homedir+"\\backup\\")
> > #homedir.replace("\\\\" , "\\")
> > #print homedir
> > backupdir1 = os.path.join(homedir, "backup")
> > backupdir2 = os.path.join(homedir, "backup2")
> > shutil.copy (backupdir1, backupdir2)
>
> You forgot to include the error traceback.
>
> So, is homedir/backup a file, or is it a directory?  If you're trying to
> copy whole directories, you might want to look at copytree instead.
>
> If you're not sure, you could use
>      os.isfile()
>
> to check.  If that's false, then shutil.copy() can't work.  Similarly,
> if the destination is a readonly file, you'd get some error.
>
> DaveA

today's date is :  30
week chosen is :  4
C:\Users\jon
['test1.txt', 'test2.txt']

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\spring 11\capstone-project\date.py", line 45, in <module>
    shutil.copy (backupdir1, backupdir2)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 116, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile
    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\jon\\backup'