[BangPypers] Hi.......

[steve]

Hi,

On 01/13/2010 02:15 PM, Smrutilekha Swain wrote:
> i am doing a programme in which i have to copy a file from one directory to
> another....i have used "shutil.copy(src,dest)"...but it is showing error
> i.e., permission denied...as file is in 'w' mode...so plzzzzzz tell me what
> to do.........

Are you sure the permission denied is because the file is opened in 'w' mode ?

 >>> l = open('foo', 'w')
 >>> shutil.copy('bar', 'foo')
 >>>

It is quite likely that you do not have sufficient privileges to write to the 
target directory. For instance ...

 >>> shutil.copy('foo', '/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 88, in copy
     copyfile(src, dst)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 53, in copyfile
     fdst = open(dst, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/foo'
 >>>

Make sure that normal copy (using the cp command on the shell/command prompt) 
works before trying out shutil.copy. If that works but shutil.copy() doesn't, 
could you place the entire traceback here ?

cheers,
- steve
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