Ryniek90 wrote:
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John Machin wrote:
Erik Max Francis <max <at> alcyone.com> writes:
I also suspect the "pipe" symbol. I don't know if it's an invalid character to Windows, but it's certainly a bad idea. The '|' character means something special to the shell.

The "pipe" character is not a valid character in a Windows file.
Despite the OP's message wrapping the filename in "pipes",
there are no pipes in the filename in the traceback to
which he posted a link.  Wrapping the filename in "pipes"
and the cryptic reference to "the '|\U' literal fault"
appear to be side-issue bogglements.

 >>> open('boggle|txt', 'wb')
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: 'boggle|txt'
 >>> open('|boggle.txt|', 'wb')
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('wb') or filename: '|boggle.txt|'




Sorry, but i don't know where those pipes came from  : P

The proper path is "C:\\Users\\Ryniek's WinSe7en\\MyNewGGBackup(2009-08-23 14:59:02).tar.bz2"
and that string literal is "\U", without any pipes  :)

The truth is that script works on linux (ubuntu) but not on windows (neither Win7 nor WinXP).
Maybe it's good idea to use raw string for specifing those paths?

As i mentioned later, some python users had the same problem with this IOError ( like here: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread174552.html or here: http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/browse_thread/thread/c42aca3eb532928c ).



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You still haven't gotten rid of those illegal colons in the filename. They're not legal in Windows, as has been pointed out a couple of times in this thread.

DaveA
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