ahhh , yes. That 's it.
Thanks Marcus. At some point in my code I was storing data using the path
using json.dumps(thePath), when I stored directly thePath everything went
okey.
Cheers
El viernes, 9 de junio de 2023 a las 16:57:49 UTC+2, Marcus Ottosson
escribió:
> Also copy/pasted the question into ChatGPT out of curiosity and got a
> similar response.
> ------------------------------
>
> The issue you are encountering seems to be related to the formatting of
> the file path string. It appears that the filePath parameter you are
> passing to the saveTreeDataToFile function includes double quotes (“)
> around the path, resulting in the error you’re experiencing.
>
> The error message you provided, OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:
> ‘“D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json”‘, indicates that
> the path is being treated as an invalid argument due to the presence of the
> double quotes.
>
> To resolve this issue, you should pass the file path without the double
> quotes. If you are calling the saveTreeDataToFile function with the
> filePath parameter in quotes like this:
>
> saveTreeDataToFile('"D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json"',
> treeWidget)
>
> You can modify the function call to remove the quotes:
>
> saveTreeDataToFile("D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json",
> treeWidget)
>
> By removing the double quotes, the file path should be passed correctly,
> and the function should work as expected.
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 15:54, Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Possibly unicode related, try print(repr(filePath)) and
>> print(type(filePath)). Strings coming out of Qt is often unicode.
>>
>> Second possible cause is that there are “ included in the path, notice
>> the triple ‘ on the invalid argument warning.
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 15:41, Rudi Hammad <rudih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>> okey let me explain with an example which will be faster. It is a small
>>> code so I'll just past it here. I have the function:
>>>
>>> def saveTreeDataToFile(filePath, treeWidget):
>>> treeData = json.loads(serializeTree(treeWidget))
>>> print(filePath) # Result: "D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA
>>> CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json"
>>>
>>> with open(filePath, mode="w") as f:
>>> json.dump(treeData, f, indent=4)
>>>
>>> I printed the file path just to check which is "D:/CHIMERA
>>> STUDIO/CHIMERA CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json". So there is no back slash
>>> issue or anything. I get the following error:
>>>
>>> # OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '"D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA
>>> CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json"'
>>>
>>>
>>> however, if override manually filePath with the result that what was
>>> printed like so:
>>>
>>> def saveTreeDataToFile(filePath, treeWidget):
>>> treeData = json.loads(serializeTree(treeWidget))
>>> filePath = "D:/CHIMERA STUDIO/CHIMERA CGI/workspace/cfg_data.json"
>>> with open(filePath, mode="w") as f:
>>> json.dump(treeData, f, indent=4)
>>>
>>> ...everything works fine. How is this possible? If it is a formatting
>>> issue I don't see it.
>>> Any idea what is happening ?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> R
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