[Tutor] moving directories into directories

[Alan Gauld]

"Christopher Spears" <cspears2002 at yahoo.com> wrote

> I'm trying to move a bunch of files and directories into another 
> directory.
> Unfortunately, I keep getting an error message:

> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: './TAPE_ARCHIVES'
>
> The problem seems to happen when I try to move a directory into another 
> directory:

I think what is happening is that you are trying to copy something that
has an equivalently named item already existing in the target. When
you do this at a UI the OS asks if you want to replace it, but in a program
it can't do that so it throws the exception. You need to handle that case 
by
catching the exception and ignoring it, or stopping or whatever.

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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