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Good afternoon, you guys. I wrote a program so that after the user has entered a name, a folder with this name will be created and then a file (from another folder) will be moved to it. The folder is created but I am getting an error while trying to move the file.
import os, shutil
digitar = input()
try:
if not os.path.exists('G:\\Meu Drive\\help\\jordan\\2. Contas\\'+digitar):
os.makedirs('G:\\Meu Drive\\help\\jordan\\2. Contas\\'+digitar)
except OSError:
print ('Error: Creating directory. ' +'G:\\Meu Drive\\help\\jordan\\2. Contas\\'+digitar)
shutil.move('G:\\Meu Drive\\help\\3. Apoio\\0. Templates\\Experiência\\Cópia - TEMPLATE.gsheet', 'G:\\Meu Drive\\help\\jordan\\2. Contas\\'+digitar)
Oserror: [Winerror 87] Incorrect parameter: 'G: My Drive help 3. Support 0. Templates Copy Experience - TEMPLATE.gsheet' -> 'G: My Drive help Jordan 2. Sample accounts'
Why am I getting this error if I’m calling the "type" variable the same way I created the folder? Does anyone have any hints?
I looked at the following questions, because they look like mine, but they didn’t help
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16868764/how-to-create-folders-and-move-files-based-on-file-name
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12517451/automatically-creating-directories-with-file-output
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9717411/python-create-directory-and-move-specific-file
look for something about read, write and modify permissions in the folder.
– Caio de Paula Silva
I have permission to read, record, modify and even delete the folder.
– Jordan Garcia
One thing that usually gives problem is the accentuation. Try to do a test using only folders that have no accent, and see what happens. Another thing is that the
os.path.existsonly checks if it exists, it does not check if it is a directory, so if you have a file calledexemploin that folder, will give error while moving because it is not a directory.– nosklo
A hint, instead of the operator
+useos.path.join()to join paths - works multiplatform and it treats the existence of the final bar to you automatically.– nosklo
os.path.exists is there to create the folder with the name coming from the input, which in the case used to demonstrate the error was "example". I tried using os.path.Join() instead of the last operator + in my code, but was accused invalid syntax.
– Jordan Garcia
@Jordangarcia the use would be like this:
os.path.join(r'G:\Meu Drive\help\jordan\2. Contas', digitar)– nosklo
@nosklo I’m still confused. How this way the code will understand that I want to send specifically the file "Copy - TEMPLATE.gsheet" to the newly created folder? I apologize in advance, as this is the first time I use the.path and shutil
– Jordan Garcia
@Jordangarcia this tip from
.join()It’s not related to your problem - it’s just a safer and more direct way of putting together two pieces of a directory path... sorry if it seemed like it would solve the problem. The suggestions I have to solve the problem itself are: 1) try with folders without any accents 2) check if there is a file calledexemplothat is hindering the creation of the folder.– nosklo