shutil.move has a mind of its own
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Jan 12 17:46:13 EST 2005
Daniel Bickett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing an application in my pastime that moves files around to
> achieve various ends -- the specifics aren't particularly important.
> The shutil module was chosen as the means simply because that is what
> google and chm searches returned most often.
>
> My problem has to do with shutil.move actually putting the files where
> I ask it to. Citing code wouldn't serve any purpose, because I am
> using the function in the most straight forward manner, ex:
>
> shutil.move( "C:\omg.txt" , "C:\folder\subdir" )
>
> In my script, rather than a file being moved to the desired location,
> it is, rather, moved to the current working directory (in this case,
> my desktop -- without any exceptions, mind you). As it happens, the
> desired locations are system folders (running windows xp, the folders
> are as follows: C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32).
> To see if this factor was causing the problem, I tried it using the
> interpreter, and found it to be flawless.
>
> My question boils down to this: What factors could possibly cause
> shutil.move to fail to move a file to the desired location, choosing
> instead to place it in the cwd (without raising any exceptions)?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Daniel Bickett
>
> P.S. I know I said I didn't need to post code, but I will anyway. You
> never know :)
>
> http://rafb.net/paste/results/FcwlEw86.html
AS several people have already suggested, you must have an error in the
calling code, which wasn't included in the pasted snippet.
Also, "data" appears to be a global variable, which leaves us lacking
some useful information.
Does the debugMess() call show the full destination path for the file?
regards
Steve
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