[Tutor] Type Error

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:29 AM, richard kappler <richkappler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still working on my data feed script, if you'll recall from previous
> emails, it reads incoming data and creates a name for image files based on
> the incoming data in a test environment. below is a snippet of that code
> that copies the next image in the pool renaming it as it copies, sends to
> another machine via ftp, the closes the file and *** should then delete the
> file *** but does not.
>
> img = str(i) + '.jpg'
> ID = device + '_' + timestamp + '_' + counter + '.jpg'
> src = '/home/test/DataFeed/input/BOT/' + img
> dst = '/home/test/DataFeed/output/BOT' + ID
> shututil.copyfile(src, dst)
> file = open(dst, 'rb')
> sendBOT01.storbinary('STOR ' + ID, file)
> file.close()
> os.remove(file)
>
>
> everything works except the os.remove(file) which gives the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "DataFeedBatch.py", line 104, in <module>
>      os.remove(file)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, file found
>
> I don't understand the error
> --
>
> All internal models of the world are approximate. ~ Sebastian Thrun
>

I'm not sure if you want to remove src or dst, but whichever one you
want to remove, use the name, not the file object, eg:

os.remove(src)
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