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Hi all,
I have to write an application which does a move and copy of a
file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something
like:

file = ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder0 02\
\TextFile_06.txt"
dest = "C:\\test"
shutil.copy(file,dest)

But it is throwing an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\venu\Testing Team\test.py", line 22, in <module>
shutil.copy(file,dest)
File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 88, in copy
copyfile(src, dst)
File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 52, in copyfile
fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('rb') or filename: u'\\\\\\\
\venuwin2008\\\\C\\\\4Folders\\\\Folder02\\\\Folde r002\\\
\TextFile_06.txt'

Can some one please help me in this regard.

Thank you
Venu madhav

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
<> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Â* Â* Â*I have to write an application which does a move and copy of a
> file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something
> like:
>
> file = ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder0 02\
> \TextFile_06.txt"

The 'r' prefix on the string makes it a raw string, meaning you don't
have do double-up the backslashes, but you did so anyway, so your path
has many extra backslashes, making it invalid. Dropping the 'r' prefix
should fix the problem.

Cheers,
Chris

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On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:47:54 -0700, Chris Rebert <> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
> <> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> * * *I have to write an application which does a move and copy of a
>> file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something
>> like:
>>
>> file = ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder0 02\
>> \TextFile_06.txt"
>
> The 'r' prefix on the string makes it a raw string, meaning you don't
> have do double-up the backslashes, but you did so anyway, so your path
> has many extra backslashes, making it invalid. Dropping the 'r' prefix
> should fix the problem.

Also, the file isn't really remote if you can use the normal local
file system calls to read it.

/Jorgen

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Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:47:54 -0700, Chris Rebert <> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
>> <> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have to write an application which does a move and copy of a
>>> file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something
>>> like:
>>>
>>> file = ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder0 02\
>>> \TextFile_06.txt"
>> The 'r' prefix on the string makes it a raw string, meaning you don't
>> have do double-up the backslashes, but you did so anyway, so your path
>> has many extra backslashes, making it invalid. Dropping the 'r' prefix
>> should fix the problem.
>
> Also, the file isn't really remote if you can use the normal local
> file system calls to read it.

That's a slightly strange position to take.
When *is* it remote, then?

TJG

In article <mailman.1957.1237182478.11746.python->,
Chris Rebert <> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:24 PM,
><> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have to write an application which does a move and
>copy of a
>> file from a remote machine to the local machine. I tried something
>> like:
>>
>> file =3D ur"\\\\venuwin2008\\C\\4Folders\\Folder02\\Folder0 02\
>> \TextFile_06.txt"
>
>The 'r' prefix on the string makes it a raw string, meaning you don't
>have do double-up the backslashes, but you did so anyway, so your path
>has many extra backslashes, making it invalid. Dropping the 'r' prefix
>should fix the problem.

Alternatively, and I think better practice, undouble the backslashes
instead of removing the 'r' prefix.
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