On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Shashidhar Paragonda < [email protected]> wrote:
* Then i tried *shutil.rmtree(path/to/folder/) but here I am > facing permission denied error > > code : os.chmod(path/to/folder, 0777) > if os.access(path/to/folder, os.R_OK): > shutil.rmtree(path/to/folder/) > is there any problem in this code or which is best solution for the > above requirement. > What you are doing is changing the permission of the folder, but if there are files inside that folder which have the 'Read-Only' attribute set then their removal would fail and an exception thrown. If you examine the stack trace you can find the file whose removal attempt failed. shutil.rmtree can take a function as a callback and you can make use of that feature to handle failures in file/subfolder removal and to remove them. Such an approach is explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1213706/what-user-do-python-scripts-run-as-in-windows http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2656322/python-shutil-rmtree-fails-on-windows-with-access-is-denied Also when you are passing windows path as an argument to Python functions it is better to pass them as raw strings[1]. Your invocation should be in the form: os.listdir(r'c:\temp') and so on. HTH, sateesh 1. http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html (Section 3.1.2 Strings) _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
