Brian McCann wrote: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Ricardo, > > what do the + signs do? >
Add the different strings. You had 'm' and 'TEST_HOME' inside a string, so they would be taken as characters and not variables. >>> TEST_HOME = "/v01/test_home" >>> m = "./lib" >>> "cp -r " + m + " " + TEST_HOME 'cp -r ./lib /v01/test_home' <----- This is what you want. >>> "cp -r m TEST_HOME" 'cp -r m TEST_HOME' <----- This is NOT what you want. > > ________________________________ > > From: Ricardo Aráoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 2:51 PM > To: Brian McCann > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: copying files > > > > Brian McCann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with the code below I set a variable TEST_HOME to a path and the >> variable m to a path >> in my current dir. >> I have a symbolic link setting m---->lib >> when I run the script I get no errors and the lib dir with its 20 files >> does not get copied to /v01/test_home >> any help would be greatly appreciated >> >> --Brian >> >> #!/usr/bin/python >> import string >> import os >> import sys >> import errno >> import shutil >> import tarfile >> >> TEST_HOME = "/v01/test_home" >> m = "./lib" >> os.system("cp -r m TEST_HOME") >> #os.system("tar -cvf viziant-ingestion.tar /v01/") >> > > Sorry, meant : os.system("cp -r " + m + " " + TEST_HOME) > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
